Fakecatcher: detection of synthetic portrait videos using biological signals

ABSTRACT

Detection of synthetic content in portrait videos, e.g., deep fakes, is achieved. Detectors blindly utilizing deep learning are not effective in catching fake content, as generative models produce realistic results. However, biological signals hidden in portrait videos which are neither spatially nor temporally preserved in fake content, can be used as implicit descriptors of authenticity. 99.39% accuracy in pairwise separation is achieved. A generalized classifier for fake content is formulated by analyzing signal transformations and corresponding feature sets. Signal maps are generated, and a CNN employed to improve the classifier for detecting synthetic content. Evaluation on several datasets produced superior detection rates against baselines, independent of the source generator, or properties of available fake content. Experiments and evaluations include signals from various facial regions, under image distortions, with varying segment durations, from different generators, against unseen datasets, and under several dimensionality reduction techniques.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

The present application is a Continuation of U.S. Pat. Application No. 17/143,093, filed January 6. 2021, now U.S. Pat. No. 11,687,778, issued Jun. 27, 2023, which is a non-provisional of, and claims benefit of priority from, U.S. Provisional Pat. Application No. 62/957,775, filed Jan. 6, 2020, the entirety of which are each expressly incorporated by reference.

1 BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Each reference cited herein is expressly incorporated herein by reference in its entirety, as if fully set forth herein, for all purposes. It is in particular noted that the cited references are intended to supply further detail for the implementation of the technologies discussed, as well as the context, implementation, and related applications for the technologies disclosed herein. The present description should therefore be interpreted as extending the disclosures of the cited references consistent with the discussion herein, and therefore the scope of this disclosure is not limited to detection of deepfake video in the particular manner described, and is rather extended to the application of components of the present disclosure to augment the existing technologies.

Entering into the artificial intelligence (AI) era, the technological advancements in deep learning started to revolutionize the perspective on solving difficult problems in computer vision, robotics, and related areas. Common deep learning models for recognition, classification, and segmentation tasks tend to improve how machines perceive, learn, and analyze the world. In addition, the developments in generative models (i.e., [5], [6], [7], [8]) empower machines to increase the photorealism in the generated data and mimic the world more accurately. Even though it is easy to speculate dystopian scenarios based on both analysis and synthesis approaches, the latter brought the immediate threat on information integrity by disabling “natural detectors”: humans cannot simply look at a video to determine its authenticity.

Following the recent initiatives for democratization of AI, generative models become increasingly popular and accessible. The widespread use of generative adversarial networks (GAN) is positively impacting some technologies: it is very easy to create personalized avatars [9], to produce animations [10], and to complete and stylize images [11]. Unfortunately, they are also used with malicious intent. The famous deep fake Obama video warning us about deep fakes going viral [12] may be the most innocent example, but there are far more devastating real-world examples which impact the society by introducing inauthentic content such as fake celebrity porn [13], political misinformation through fake news [14], and counterfeiting art using AI [15]. This lack of authenticity and increasing information obfuscation pose real threats to individuals, criminal system, and information integrity. Although there are recent purely deep learning approaches to detect fake content, those are limited by the specific generative model [20], dataset [2], people [21], or hand-crafted features [22]. In contrast, the present technology chooses to search for some natural priors in authentic content, instead of putting some assumptions on fake content.

Counterfeiting money may be considered as an analogy. Actual bills are stamped with an unknown process so that fake money cannot contain that special mark. That special mark is ought in authentic videos, which are already stamped by physics and biology of the real world, but generative models have yet to replicate in image space because they “do not know” how the stamp works. As an example of such special marks, the chaotic order of the real world is found as an authenticity stamp by the study of Benes et al. [16]. As another example, Pan et al. [17] defend the same idea and propose integrating physics-based models for GANs to improve the realism of the generated samples. Biological signals (such as heart rate) have already been exploited for medical [18] and security purposes [19].

Even though GANs learn and generate photorealistic visual and geometric signals beyond the discriminative capabilities of human eyes, biological signals hidden by nature are still not easily replicable. Biological signals are also intuitive and complimentary ingredients of facial videos - which is the domain of deep fakes. Moreover, videos, as opposed to images, contain another layer of complexity to becloud fake synthesis: the consistency in the time dimension. Together with the signals’ spatial coherence, temporal consistency is the key prior to detect authentic content. To complete this narrative, the approach exploits biological signals to detect fake content in portrait videos, independent of the source of creation.

Main features of the present technology include: formulations and experimental validations of signal transformations to exploit spatial coherence and temporal consistency of biological signals for both pairwise and general authenticity classification, a generalized and interpretable deep fake detector that operates in-the-wild, a novel biological signal map construction to train neural networks for authenticity classification, and a diverse dataset of portrait videos to create a test bed for fake content detection in the wild.

The system processes input videos (FIG. 1A) by collecting video segments with facial parts, defining regions of interests within each face (FIG. 1B), and extracting several biological signals (FIG. 1C) from those regions in those segments.

The pairwise separation problem is scrutinized where video pairs are given but the fake one is not known. A solution is formulated by examining the extracted biological signals, their transformations to different domains (time, frequency, time-frequency), and their correlations (FIG. 1D). The revelations from the pairwise context and interpretable feature extractors in the literature (FIG. 1E) are combined to develop a generalized authenticity classifier working in a high dimensional feature space (FIG. 1F). The signals are then transformed into novel signal maps of those segments to train a simple convolutional deep fake detector network (FIG. 1G). The class probabilities of segments are aggregated in a video into a binary “fake or authentic” decision (FIG. 1H).

To further evaluate FakeCatcher for in-the-wild scenarios, over 140 online videos were collected, totaling up to a “Deep Fakes” dataset of 30 GB. It is important to note that, unlike existing datasets, the dataset includes “in the wild” videos, independent of the generative model, resolution, compression, content, and context. The simple CNN achieves 91.07% accuracy for detecting inauthentic content on this dataset, and 96% accuracy on Face Forensics dataset (FF) [2], and 94.65% Face Forensics++ (FF++) [3], outperforming all baseline architectures compared against. The effects of segment durations, facial regions, and dimensionality reduction techniques were analyzed on the feature sets, and on the mentioned datasets.

2 Background Information

Relevant terminology and background information is provided below for better understanding of the concepts and techniques discussed herein.

2.1 Convolution

A Convolutional Neural Network is a class of artificial neural network that uses convolutional layers to filter inputs for useful information. The convolution operation involves combining input data (feature map) with a convolution kernel (filter) to form a transformed feature map. The filters in the convolutional layers (conv layers) are modified based on learned parameters to extract the most useful information for a specific task. Convolutional networks adjust automatically to find the best feature based on the task. The CNN would filter information about the shape of an object when confronted with a general object recognition task but would extract the color of the bird when faced with a bird recognition task. This is based on the CNN’s understanding that different classes of objects have different shapes but that different types of birds are more likely to differ in color than in shape.

Convolution is an important concept in deep learning. A convolution is the mixing of information, and is defined mathematically. When employed in a neural network, instead of a fixed kernel matrix convolutional operator, parameters are assigned to kernels based on training on the data. As the convolutional net is trained, the kernel will get better and better at filtering a given image (or a given feature map) for relevant information. This is called feature learning. Feature learning automatically generalizes to each new task. Usually, single kernel is not learned in convolutional nets, and instead a hierarchy of multiple kernels is learned at the same time. For example a 3×x16×16 kernel applied to a 256×256 image would produce 32 feature maps of size 241×241 (image size - kernel size+1). So automatically 32 new features are learned that have relevant information for the task in them. These features then provide the inputs for the next kernel which filters the inputs again. Once the hierarchical features are learned, they are passed to a fully connected, simple neural network that combines them in order to classify the input image into classes.

The convolution theorem, relates convolution in the time/space domain to a mere element-wise multiplication in the frequency/Fourier domain.

$h(x) = f \otimes g = {\int\limits_{- \infty}^{\infty}{f\left( {x - u} \right)g(u)du}} = F^{- 1}\left( {\sqrt{2\pi}F\left| {f|F|g} \right|} \right)$

$\begin{array}{l} {\text{feature map = input} \otimes \text{kernel =}} \\ {{\sum\limits_{y = 0}^{\text{columns}}\left( {{\sum\limits_{x = 0}^{\text{rows}}{\text{input}\left( {x - a,y - b} \right)}}\text{kernel}\left( {x,y} \right)} \right)} =} \\ {F^{- 1}\left( {\sqrt{2\pi}F\left| {\text{input}|F|\text{kernel}} \right|} \right)} \end{array}$

The first equation is the one dimensional continuous convolution theorem of two general continuous functions; the second equation is the 2D discrete convolution theorem for discrete image data. Here Ⓧ denotes a convolution operation, F denotes the Fourier transform, F⁻¹ the inverse Fourier transform, and

$\sqrt{2\pi}$

is a normalization constant. Note that “discrete” here means that the data consists of a countable number of variables (pixels); and 1D means that thevariables can be laid out in one dimension in a meaningful way, e.g., time is one dimensional (one second after the other), images are two dimensional (pixels have rows and columns), videos are three dimensional (pixels have rows and columns, and images come one after another).

2.2 Fast Fourier Transform

The fast Fourier transform is an algorithm that transforms data from the space/time domain into the frequency or Fourier domain. The Fourier transform describes the original function in a sum of wave-like cosine and sine terms. The Fourier transform is generally complex valued. If an original image is transformed with a Fourier transform and then multiplied it by a circle padded by zeros, in the Fourier domain, all high frequency values are filtered out (they will be set to zero, due to the zero padded values). The circle need not define a simple pattern, and rather may be a more complex convolution kernel.

A normalization may be applied that turns the convolution kernel into a probability density function. This is just like computing the softmax for output values in a classification tasks.

Convolution is closely related to cross-correlation:

$\begin{array}{l} {\text{convoluted}x = f \otimes g = {\int\limits_{- \infty}^{\infty}{f\left( {x - u} \right)g(u)du}} =} \\ {F^{- 1}\left( {\sqrt{2\pi}F\left| {f|F|g} \right|} \right)} \end{array}$

$\begin{array}{l} {\text{cross-correlated}x = f☆g = {\int\limits_{- \infty}^{\infty}{f\left( {x - u} \right)g(u)*du}} =} \\ {F^{- 1}\left( {\sqrt{2\pi}F\left| {f|F|g} \right|*} \right)} \end{array}$

f(x)☆g(x) = f^(*)(−x) ⊗ g(x)

2.3 Support Vector Machines

In machine learning, support-vector machines (SVMs, also support-vector networks [89]) are supervised learning models with associated learning algorithms that analyze data for classification and regression analysis. SVMs are one of the most robust prediction methods, being based on statistical learning frameworks or VC theory. Given a set of training examples, each marked as belonging to one of two categories, an SVM training algorithm builds a model that assigns new examples to one category or the other, making it a non-probabilistic binary linear classifier (although methods such as Platt scaling exist to use SVM in a probabilistic classification setting). An SVM maps training examples to points in space so as to maximize the width of the gap between the two categories. New examples are then mapped into that same space and predicted to belong to a category based on which side of the gap they fall.

In addition to performing linear classification, SVMs can efficiently perform a non-linear classification using what is called the kernel trick, implicitly mapping their inputs into high-dimensional feature spaces. When data are unlabeled, supervised learning is not possible, and an unsupervised learning approach is required, which attempts to find natural clustering of the data to groups, and then map new data to these formed groups. The support-vector clustering algorithm, applies the statistics of support vectors, developed in the support vector machines algorithm, to categorize unlabeled data, and is one of the most widely used clustering algorithms in industrial applications.

A support-vector machine constructs a hyperplane or set of hyperplanes in a high- or infinite-dimensional space, which can be used for classification, regression, or other tasks like outliers detection. Intuitively, a good separation is achieved by the hyperplane that has the largest distance to the nearest training-data point of any class (so-called functional margin), since in general the larger the margin, the lower the generalization error of the classifier.

Whereas the original problem may be stated in a finite-dimensional space, it often happens that the sets to discriminate are not linearly separable in that space. For this reason, the original finite-dimensional space may be mapped into a much higher-dimensional space, presumably making the separation easier in that space. To keep the computational load reasonable, the mappings used by SVM schemes are often designed to ensure that dot products of pairs of input data vectors may be computed easily in terms of the variables in the original space, by defining them in terms of a kernel function k(x,y) selected to suit the problem. The hyperplanes in the higher-dimensional space are defined as the set of points whose dot product with a vector in that space is constant, where such a set of vectors is an orthogonal (and thus minimal) set of vectors that defines a hyperplane. The vectors defining the hyperplanes can be chosen to be linear combinations with parameters of images of feature vectors that occur in the data base. With this choice of a hyperplane, the points x in the feature space that are mapped into the hyperplane are defined by the relation Σ_(i) α_(i)k(x_(i), x) = constant, Note that if k(x,y) becomes small as y grows further away from x, each term in the sum measures the degree of closeness of the test point x to the corresponding data base point x_(i). In this way, the sum of kernels above can be used to measure the relative nearness of each test point to the data points originating in one or the other of the sets to be discriminated. Note the fact that the set of points x mapped into any hyperplane can be quite convoluted as a result, allowing much more complex discrimination between sets that are not convex at all in the original space. See Support Vector Machine References.

A radial basis function (RBF) is a real-valued function φ whose value depends only on the distance between the input and some fixed point, either the origin, so that φ(x) = (φ(∥x∥), or some other fixed point c, called a center, so that φ(x) = φ(∥x-c∥). Any function φ that satisfies the property φ(x) = φ(∥x∥) is a radial function. The distance is usually Euclidean distance, although other metrics are sometimes used. They are often used as a collection {φ_(k)}_(k) which forms a basis for some function space of interest, hence the name. See Radial Basis Function References.

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are well known in classification problems. The use of SVMs in regression is known as Support Vector Regression (SVR). In most linear regression models, the objective is to minimize the sum of squared errors. Take Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) for example. Lasso, Ridge, and ElasticNet are all extensions of OLS, with an additional penalty parameter that aims to minimize complexity and/or reduce the number of features used in the final model. Regardless, the aim - as with many models - is to reduce the error of the test set. SVR gives us the flexibility to define how much error is acceptable in the model and will find an appropriate line (or hyperplane in higher dimensions) to fit the data. In contrast to OLS, the objective function of SVR is to minimize the coefficients - more specifically, the l2-norm of the coefficient vector - not the squared error. The error term is instead handled in the constraints, where the absolute error is set less than or equal to a specified margin, called the maximum error, ∈ (epsilon). Epsilon is tuned to gain the desired model accuracy.

2.4 Source Separation

Source separation, blind signal separation (BSS) or blind source separation, is the separation of a set of source signals from a set of mixed signals, without the aid of information (or with very little information) about the source signals or the mixing process. It is most commonly applied in digital signal processing and involves the analysis of mixtures of signals; the objective is to recover the original component signals from a mixture signal.

This problem is in general highly underdetermined, but useful solutions can be derived under a surprising variety of conditions. Blind signal separation is now routinely performed on multidimensional data, such as images and tensors.

The set of individual source signals, s(t) = (s₁(t),..., s_(n) (t))^(T), is ‘mixed’ using a matrix, A = [a_(ij)] ∈ ℝ^(m×n), to produce a set of ‘mixed’ signals, x(t) = (x₁(t),..., x_(m)(t))^(T), as follows. Usually, n is equal to m. If m>n, then the system of equations is overdetermined and thus can be unmixed using a conventional linear method. If n>m, the system is underdetermined and a non-linear method must be employed to recover the unmixed signals. The signals themselves can be multidimensional.

x(t) = A ⋅ s(t)x(t) = A ⋅ s(t)

The above equation is effectively ‘inverted’ as follows. Blind source separation separates the set of mixed signals, x(t), through the determination of an ‘unmixing’ matrix, B = [B_(ij) ]∈ ℝ^(n×m) to ‘recover’ an approximation of the original signals, y(t) = (y₁(t),..., y_(n)(t))^(T), y(t) = B · x(t)y(t) = B · x(t) .

See Signal Separation References.

Principal Component Analysis is a dimension reduction technique that has many useful applications in data analysis/statistics. Dimension reduction is achieved by forming new variables which are linear combinations of the variables in the original data set. These linear combinations are chosen to account for as much of the original variance-covariance/correlation structure in the original variables as possible. The new variables formed by these linear combinations are uncorrelated which is desirable property.

The i^(th) principal component (Y_(i)) is a linear combination of the original of the p variables in the data set.

Y_(i) = a_(i1)X₁ + a_(i2)X₂ + ⋯ + a_(ip)X_(p)  i = 1, … , p

The coefficients (a_(ij)) are called the loadings for the i^(th) principal component (Y_(i)). Interpretation of the loadings can be an important aspect of the PCA. First, important insights may be gained into how the original variables relate to one another from them. Also examining the loadings leads to an understanding what the scores (values) for the i^(th) principal component (Y_(i)) are measuring. Much of the information can be captured in the original variables (X₁, ..., X_(p)) with a much smaller number of principal components (Y₁, ..., Y_(k)) where k < < p.

The principal components are particular linear combinations of the columns of a data matrix. Principal components depend solely on the variance/covariance matrix (or more generally on the correlation matrix) of the original p variables X₁, X₂, ..., X_(p).

Consider the following linear combinations of X (the data matrix) that has variance/covariance matrix Σ

Y₁ = a₁^(′)X = a₁₁X₁ + a₁₂X₂ + a₁₃X₃ + … + a_(1p)X_(p)

Y₂ = a₂^(′)X = a₂₁X₁ + a₂₂X₂ + a₂₃X₃ + … + a_(2p)X_(p)

● ● ●

Y_(p) = a_(p)^(′)X = a_(p1)X₁ + a_(p2)X₂ + a_(p3)X₃ + … + a_(pp)X_(p)

The variance/covariance term for each linear combination is given by

Var(Y₁) = a₁^(′)∑a₁  ,

Var(Y₂) = a₂^(′)∑a₂  , ⋯,

Var(Y_(p)) = a_(p)^(′)∑a_(p)

and

Cov(Y₁, Y₂) = a₁^(′)∑a₂  ,

Cov(Y₁, Y₃) = a₁^(′)∑a₃  , ⋯,

Cov(Y₁, Y_(p)) = a_(p)^(′)∑a_(p)

Cov(Y₂, Y₃) = a₃^(′)∑a₃  , ⋯,  etc.

etc.

The principal components are defined to be the uncorrelated linear combinations that achieve maximum variances for Var(Y₁),Var(Y₂),···,Var(Y_(p)). In particular,

-   First Principal Component: The linear combination -   a₁^(′)X -   that maximizes -   Var(a₁^(′)X) -   subject to the constraint of -   a₁^(′)a₁ = 1 -   Second Principal Component: The linear combination -   a₂^(′)X -   that maximizes -   Var(a₂^(′)X) -   subject to the constraint of -   a₂^(′)a₂ = 1 -   AND -   Cov(a₁^(′)X,a₂^(′)X) = 0 -   Third Principal Component: The linear combination -   a₃^(′)X -   that maximizes -   Var(a₃^(′)X) -   subject to the constraint of -   a₃^(′)a₃ = 1 -   AND -   Cov(a₁^(′)X,a₃^(′)X) = 0 ANDCov(a₂^(′)X,a₃^(′)X) = 0 -   etc.

Let Σ be the sample variance/covariance matrix associated with X (the data matrix). Let (λ₁,e₁), (λ₂,e₂), ..., (λ_(p),e_(p)) be the eigenvalues / eigenvectors of Σ where it is assumed λ₁ ≥ λ₂ ≥...≥ λ_(p) ≥ 0, then the principal components are given by

Y₁ = e₁^(′)X

Var(Y₁) = e₁^(′)Σ̂e₁ = λ₁

Y₂ = e₂^(′)X

Var(Y₂) = e₂^(′)Σ̂e₂ = λ₁

• • • • •

Y_(p) = e_(p)^(′)X

Var(Y_(p)) = e_(p)^(′)Σ̂e_(p) = λ_(p)

and because the eigenvectors are orthogonal, the desired covariance result is obtained, namely

Cov(e^(′)_(j)X, e^(′)_(k)X) = 0

for all j # k. Also, if the variables are standardized, first then Σ = R, the sample correlation matrix.

Let Σ be the variance/covariance matrix associated with X (the data matrix) and let (λ₁,e₁), (λ₂,e₂), ..., (λ_(p),e_(p)) be the eigenvalues / eigenvectors of Σ where it is assumed λ₁ ≥ λ₂ ≥ ... ≥ λ_(p) ≥ 0 .

$\begin{matrix} {{\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{p}{Var\left( X_{\, j} \right)}}\mspace{6mu} = \mspace{6mu}\sigma_{11}\mspace{6mu} + \mspace{6mu}\sigma_{22}\mspace{6mu} + \mspace{6mu}\ldots\mspace{6mu} + \mspace{6mu}\sigma_{22}\mspace{6mu}\mspace{6mu}} \\ {= \lambda_{1}\mspace{6mu} + \mspace{6mu}\lambda_{2}\mspace{6mu} + \,\ldots\mspace{6mu} + \mspace{6mu}\lambda_{p}} \end{matrix}$

Result 2 implies that λ₁ can be interpreted as the contribution to the total variance that is due to the 1^(st) principal component (i.e. the linear combination of the original variables with maximal variance), λ₂ can be interpreted as the contribution to the total variance that is due to the 2^(nd) principal component, etc.

As seen above, the principal components can be derived by performing a spectral decomposition (i.e., eigenanalysis of the variance/covariance matrix or the correlation matrix). As an alternative, Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) may be considered.

Singular value decomposition will decompose a n × p data matrix X into a product of three matrices, X = UDV′, where,

-   U = n × n matrix containing the eigenvectors of XX′. -   D = n × p matrix containing the singular values in a p × p     submatrix.

The singular values are the square roots of the non-zero eigenvalues of XX′.

V = p × p matrix containing the eigenvectors of X′X.

Typically, the first few singular values are large relative to the rest. An approximation to the original matrix X may be achieved by retaining the k largest singular values and their corresponding eigenvectors contained in U & V (k < p). Alternatively, the SVD of X may be completed by finding completing the eigenanalysis of XX′ & X′X and then using the results to form U, D, and V′.

SVD can be used to reduce the dimensionality of data set and examining the components (rows and columns) of the U and V matrices can help gain insight to underlying structure in the data matrix X.

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a multivariate statistical technique that seeks to uncover the hidden variables in high-dimensional data. As such, it belongs to what is called the latent variable class of models. A classic problem that Independent Component Analysis (ICA) can solve is the “Cocktail Party” problem where separate microphones record the ambient sound in at a cocktail party. Each microphone will pick up several different conversations and sounds in the room producing an audio stream with several different sound components combined. ICA will break apart the sound signals from each microphone into the independent underlying sound components. See Principal Component Analysis References

In signal processing, independent component analysis (ICA) is a computational method for separating a multivariate signal into additive subcomponents. This is done by assuming that the subcomponents are non-Gaussian signals and that they are statistically independent from each other. ICA is a special case of blind source separation. See Independent Component Analysis References

Linear discriminant analysis (LDA), normal discriminant analysis (NDA), or discriminant function analysis is a generalization of Fisher’s linear discriminant, a method used in statistics and other fields, to find a linear combination of features that characterizes or separates two or more classes of objects or events. The resulting combination may be used as a linear classifier, or, more commonly, for dimensionality reduction before later classification. LDA is closely related to analysis of variance (ANOVA) and regression analysis, which also attempt to express one dependent variable as a linear combination of other features or measurements. However, ANOVA uses categorical independent variables and a continuous dependent variable, whereas discriminant analysis has continuous independent variables and a categorical dependent variable (i.e., the class label).

LDA is also closely related to principal component analysis (PCA) and factor analysis in that they both look for linear combinations of variables which best explain the data. LDA explicitly attempts to model the difference between the classes of data. PCA, in contrast, does not take into account any difference in class, and factor analysis builds the feature combinations based on differences rather than similarities. Discriminant analysis is also different from factor analysis in that it is not an interdependence technique: a distinction between independent variables and dependent variables (also called criterion variables) must be made. LDA works when the measurements made on independent variables for each observation are continuous quantities. When dealing with categorical independent variables, the equivalent technique is discriminant correspondence analysis. Discriminant analysis is used when groups are known a priori (unlike in cluster analysis). Each case must have a score on one or more quantitative predictor measures, and a score on a group measure. Discriminant function analysis is classification - the act of distributing things into groups, classes or categories of the same type.

Consider a set of observations x (also called features, attributes, variables or measurements) for each sample of an object or event with known class y. This set of samples is called the training set. The classification problem is then to find a good predictor for the class y of any sample of the same distribution (not necessarily from the training set) given only an observation x. LDA approaches the problem by assuming that the conditional probability density functions p(x | y = 0) and p(x | y = 1) are both normally distributed with mean and covariance parameters (µ ₀,Σ₀) and (µ ₁,Σ₁), respectively. Under this assumption, the Bayes optimal solution is to predict points as being from the second class if the log of the likelihood ratios is bigger than some threshold T, so that:

$\begin{array}{l} {\left( {\overset{\rightarrow}{x} - {\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{0}} \right)^{T}{\sum_{0}^{- 1}\left( {\overset{\rightarrow}{x} - {\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{0}} \right)}\mspace{6mu} + 1\text{n}\mspace{6mu}\left| {\sum{}_{0}} \right|\mspace{6mu} - \mspace{6mu}\left( {\overset{\rightarrow}{x} - {\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{1}} \right)^{T}\mspace{6mu}{\sum_{1}^{- 1}\left( {\overset{\rightarrow}{x} - {\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{1}} \right)}\mspace{6mu} -} \\ {1\text{n}\mspace{6mu}\left| {\sum{}_{1}} \right|\mspace{6mu} > \mspace{6mu} T} \end{array}$

Without any further assumptions, the resulting classifier is referred to as QDA (quadratic discriminant analysis). LDA instead makes the additional simplifying homoscedasticity assumption (i.e., that the class covariances are identical, so Σ₀ = Σ₁ = Σ and that the covariances have full rank). In this case, several terms cancel:

${\overset{\rightarrow}{x}}^{T}{\sum_{0}^{- 1}{\overset{\rightarrow}{x}\mspace{6mu} = \mspace{6mu}}}{\overset{\rightarrow}{x}}^{T}{\sum_{1}^{- 1}\overset{\rightarrow}{x}}$

${\overset{\rightarrow}{x}}^{T}{\sum_{i}^{- 1}{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{i}}\mspace{6mu} = \mspace{6mu}{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{i}^{T}{\sum_{i}^{- 1}\overset{\rightarrow}{x}}$

because L_(i) is Hermitian and the above decision criterion becomes a threshold on the dot product w · x > c for some threshold constant c, where

$\overset{\rightarrow}{w}\mspace{6mu} = \mspace{6mu}{\sum_{\mspace{6mu}}^{- 1}\left( {{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{1}\mspace{6mu} - \mspace{6mu}{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{0}} \right)}\mspace{6mu},\mspace{6mu} c\mspace{6mu} = \mspace{6mu}\overset{\rightarrow}{w}\mspace{6mu} \cdot \mspace{6mu}\frac{1}{2}\left( {{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{1}\mspace{6mu} + \mspace{6mu}{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{0}} \right)\mspace{6mu}$

This means that the criterion of an input x being in a class y is purely a function of this linear combination of the known observations.

It is often useful to see this conclusion in geometrical terms: the criterion of an input x being in a class y is purely a function of projection of multidimensional-space point x onto vector w (only its direction considered). In other words, the observation belongs to y if corresponding x is located on a certain side of a hyperplane perpendicular to w. The location of the plane is defined by the threshold c.

Discriminant analysis works by creating one or more linear combinations of predictors, creating a new latent variable for each function. These functions are called discriminant functions. The number of functions possible is either N_(g) -1 where N_(g) = number of groups, or p (the number of predictors), whichever is smaller. The first function created maximizes the differences between groups on that function. The second function maximizes differences on that function, but also must not be correlated with the previous function. This continues with subsequent functions with the requirement that the new function not be correlated with any of the previous functions.

The terms Fisher’s linear discriminant and LDA are often used interchangeably.

Suppose two classes of observations have means µ _(0,) µ ₁ and covariances Σ₀,Σ₁. Then the linear combination of features w · x will have means w · µ _(i) and variances

${\overset{\rightarrow}{w}}^{T}{\sum_{i}\overset{\rightarrow}{w}}$

for i = 0,1. Fisher defined the separation between these two distributions to be the ratio of the variance between the classes to the variance within the classes:

$S\mspace{6mu} = \mspace{6mu}\frac{\sigma_{\text{between}}^{2}}{\sigma_{\text{within}}^{2}}\mspace{6mu} = \mspace{6mu}\frac{\left( {\overset{\rightarrow}{w}\mspace{6mu} \cdot \,{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{1}\mspace{6mu} - \mspace{6mu}\overset{\rightarrow}{w}\, \cdot \mspace{6mu}{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{0}} \right)^{2}}{{\overset{\rightarrow}{w}}^{T}{\sum_{1}^{\mspace{6mu}}{\overset{\rightarrow}{w}\mspace{6mu} + \,{\overset{\rightarrow}{w}}^{T}\mspace{6mu}{\sum_{0}^{\mspace{6mu}}\overset{\rightarrow}{w}}}}}\mspace{6mu} = \mspace{6mu}\frac{\left( {\overset{\rightarrow}{w}\mspace{6mu} \cdot \mspace{6mu}\left( {{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{1}\mspace{6mu} - \mspace{6mu}{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{0}} \right)} \right)^{2}}{{\overset{\rightarrow}{w}}^{T}\left( {{\sum_{0} +}{\sum_{1}\mspace{6mu}}} \right)\overset{\rightarrow}{w}}$

This measure is, in some sense, a measure of the signal-to-noise ratio for the class labelling. It can be shown that the maximum separation occurs when

$\overset{\rightarrow}{w}\mspace{6mu} \propto \mspace{6mu}\left( {\text{Σ}_{0} + \text{Σ}_{1}} \right)^{- 1}\mspace{6mu}\left( {{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{1}\mspace{6mu} - \mspace{6mu}{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{0}} \right)$

When the assumptions of LDA are satisfied, the above equation is equivalent to LDA. The vector w is the normal to the discriminant hyperplane. As an example, in a two dimensional problem, the line that best divides the two groups is perpendicular to w. Generally, the data points to be discriminated are projected onto w; then the threshold that best separates the data is chosen from analysis of the one-dimensional distribution. There is no general rule for the threshold. However, if projections of points from both classes exhibit approximately the same distributions, a good choice would be the hyperplane between projections of the two means, w · µ ₀ and w · µ ₁. In this case the parameter c in threshold condition w · x > c can be found explicitly:

$c = \overset{\rightarrow}{w} \cdot \frac{1}{2}\left( {{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{0} + {\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{1}} \right) = \frac{1}{2}{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{1}^{T}{\sum_{1}^{- 1}{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{1}} - \frac{1}{2}{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{0}^{T}{\sum_{0}^{- 1}{\overset{\rightarrow}{\mu}}_{0}}$

In the case where there are more than two classes, the analysis used in the derivation of the Fisher discriminant can be extended to find a subspace which appears to contain all of the class variability. Suppose that each of C classes has a mean µ_(i) and the same covariance Σ. Then the scatter between class variability may be defined by the sample covariance of the class means

$\sum_{b}{= \frac{1}{C}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{C}{\left( {\mu_{i} - \mu} \right)\left( {\mu_{i} - \mu} \right)^{T}}}}$

where µ is the mean of the class means. The class separation in a direction w in this case will be given by

$S = \frac{{\overset{\rightarrow}{w}}^{T}{\sum_{b}\overset{\rightarrow}{w}}}{{\overset{\rightarrow}{w}}^{T}{\sum\overset{\rightarrow}{w}}}$

This means that when w is an eigenvector of Σ⁻¹Σ_(b) the separation will be equal to the corresponding eigenvalue. If Σ⁻¹Σ_(b) is diagonalizable, the variability between features will be contained in the subspace spanned by the eigenvectors corresponding to the C-1 largest eigenvalues (since Σ_(b) is of rank C-1 at most). These eigenvectors are primarily used in feature reduction, as in PCA. The eigenvectors corresponding to the smaller eigenvalues will tend to be very sensitive to the exact choice of training data, and it is often necessary to use regularization.

If classification is required, instead of dimension reduction, there are a number of alternative techniques available. For instance, the classes may be partitioned, and a standard Fisher discriminant or LDA used to classify each partition. A common example of this is “one against the rest” where the points from one class are put in one group, and everything else in the other, and then LDA applied. This will result in C classifiers, whose results are combined. Another common method is pairwise classification, where a new classifier is created for each pair of classes (giving C(C-1)/2 classifiers in total), with the individual classifiers combined to produce a final classification. See Linear Discriminant Analysis References.

Common spatial pattern (CSP) is a mathematical procedure used in signal processing for separating a multivariate signal into additive subcomponents which have maximum differences in variance between two windows. Let X₁ of size (n,t₁) and X₂ of size (n,t₂) be two windows of a multivariate signal, where n is the number of signals and t₁ and t₂ are the respective number of samples. The CSP algorithm determines the component w^(T) such that the ratio of variance (or second-order moment) is maximized between the two windows:

$\text{w}\mspace{6mu} = \mspace{6mu}\text{arg}\,\text{max}_{\text{w}}\mspace{6mu}\frac{\left\| \text{wX}_{1} \right\|^{2}}{\left\| \text{wX}_{2} \right\|^{2}}$

The solution is given by computing the two covariance matrices:

$\text{R}_{\text{1}}\mspace{6mu} = \mspace{6mu}\frac{\text{X}_{\text{1}}\text{X}_{\text{1}}^{\text{T}}}{t_{1}},\mspace{6mu}\text{R}_{\text{2}}\mspace{6mu} = \frac{\text{X}_{\text{2}}\text{X}_{\text{2}}^{\text{T}}}{t_{2}}$

Then, the simultaneous diagonalization of those two matrices (also called generalized eigenvalue decomposition) is realized. The matrix of eigenvectors P = [p₁ ⋯ p_(n)] is found and the diagonal matrix D of eigenvalues {λ_(1,⋯),λ_(n)} sorted by decreasing order such that: P^(T)R₁P = D and P^(T)R₂P = I_(n), with I_(n) the identity matrix. This is equivalent to the eigendecomposition of

R₂⁻¹R₁ : R₂⁻¹R₁ = PDP⁻¹.

w^(T) will correspond to the first column of P: W=P₁ ^(T).

The eigenvectors composing P are components with variance ratio between the two windows equal to their corresponding eigenvalue:

$\text{λ}_{i}\mspace{6mu} = \mspace{6mu}\frac{\left\| {\text{p}_{i}^{\text{T}}\text{X}_{1}} \right\|^{2}}{\left\| {\text{p}_{i}^{\text{T}}\text{X}_{2}} \right\|^{2}}$

The vectorial subspace E_(¡) generated by the i first eigenvectors [p, ⋯ p_(i)] will be the subspace maximizing the variance ratio of all components belonging to it:

$E_{i}\mspace{6mu} = \mspace{6mu}\arg\mspace{6mu}\max_{E}\mspace{6mu}\left( {\min_{p \in E}\frac{\left\| {\text{p}^{\text{T}}\text{X}_{\text{1}}} \right\|^{2}}{\left\| {\text{p}^{\text{T}}\text{X}_{2}} \right\|^{2}}} \right)$

In the same way, the vectorial subspace F_(j) generated by the j last eigenvectors [P_(n-j+1) ⋯ p_(n)] will be the subspace minimizing the variance ratio of all components belonging to it:

$F_{j}\mspace{6mu} = \mspace{6mu}\arg\mspace{6mu}\min_{F}\mspace{6mu}\left( {\max_{p \in F}\frac{\left\| {\text{p}^{\text{T}}\text{X}_{\text{1}}} \right\|^{2}}{\left\| {\text{p}^{\text{T}}\text{X}_{2}} \right\|^{2}}} \right) \cdot$

CSP can be applied after a mean subtraction (a.k.a. “mean centering”) on signals in order to realize a variance ratio optimization. Otherwise CSP optimizes the ratio of second-order moment. See Common Spatial Pattern References.

2.5 Deep Learning

Deep learning (also known as deep structured learning) is part of a broader family of machine learning methods based on artificial neural networks with representation learning. Learning can be supervised, semi-supervised or unsupervised. Deep-learning architectures such as deep neural networks, deep belief networks, recurrent neural networks and convolutional neural networks have been applied to fields including computer vision, machine vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, audio recognition, social network filtering, machine translation, bioinformatics, drug design, medical image analysis, material inspection and board game programs, where they have produced results comparable to and in some cases surpassing human expert performance. The adjective “deep” in deep learning comes from the use of multiple hidden layers in the network. Early work showed that a linear perceptron cannot be a universal classifier, and then that a network with a nonpolynomial activation function with one hidden layer of unbounded width can on the other hand so be. Deep learning is a modern variation which is concerned with an unbounded number of layers of bounded size, which permits practical application and optimized implementation, while retaining theoretical universality under mild conditions. In deep learning the layers are also permitted to be heterogeneous and to deviate widely from biologically informed connectionist models, for the sake of efficiency, trainability and understandability, whence the “structured” part. See Deep Learning References.

2.6 Convolutional Neural Network

Convolutional networks are composed of an input layer, an output layer, and one or more hidden layers. A convolutional network is different than a regular neural network in that the neurons in its layers are arranged in three dimensions (width, height, and depth dimensions). This allows the CNN to transform an input volume in three dimensions to an output volume. The hidden layers are a combination of convolution layers, pooling layers, normalization layers, and fully connected layers. CNNs use multiple conv layers to filter input volumes to greater levels of abstraction. The CNN may also be extended into an arbitrary number of dimensions, i.e., 3D plus time.

CNNs improve their detection capability for unusually placed objects by using pooling layers for limited translation and rotation invariance. Pooling also allows for the usage of more convolutional layers by reducing memory consumption. Normalization layers are used to normalize over local input regions by moving all inputs in a layer towards a mean of zero and variance of one. Other regularization techniques such as batch normalization, where activations for the entire batch, or dropout, are normalized, where randomly chosen neurons are ignored during the training process, can also be used. Fully-connected layers have neurons that are functionally similar to convolutional layers (compute dot products) but are different in that they are connected to all activations in the previous layer.

An activation function in a neural network applies a non-linear transformation on weighted input data. A popular activation function for CNNs is ReLU or rectified linear function which zeros out negative inputs and is represented as output = max(0, weighteddata). The rectified linear function speeds up training while not compromising significantly on accuracy.

Inception modules in CNNs allow for deeper and larger conv layers while also speeding up computation. This is done by using 1×1 convolutions with small feature map size, for example, 192 28×28 sized feature maps can be reduced to 64 28×28 feature maps through 64 1×1 convolutions. Because of the reduced size, these 1×1 convolutions can be followed up with larger convolutions of size 3×3 and 5×5. In addition to 1×1 convolution, max pooling may also be used to reduce dimensionality. In the output of an inception module, all the large convolutions are concatenated into a big feature map which is then fed into the next layer (or inception module).

Pooling is a procedure that reduces the input over a certain area to a single value (subsampling). In convolutional neural networks, this concentration of information provides similar information to outgoing connections with reduced memory consumption. Pooling provides basic invariance to rotations and translations and improves the object detection capability of convolutional networks. For example, the face on an image patch that is not in the center of the image but slightly translated, can still be detected by the convolutional filters because the information is funneled into the right place by the pooling operation. The larger the size of the pooling area, the more information is condensed, which leads to slim networks that fit more easily into GPU memory. However, if the pooling area is too large, too much information is thrown away and predictive performance decreases.

Like multi-layer perceptrons and recurrent neural networks, convolutional neural networks can also be trained using gradient-based optimization techniques. Stochastic, batch, or mini-batch gradient descent algorithms can be used to optimize the parameters of the neural network. Once the CNN has been trained, it can be then used for inference to accurately predict outputs for a given input.

Deep learning frameworks allow researchers to create and explore Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and other Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) easily, while delivering the high speed needed for both experiments and industrial deployment. The deep learning frameworks run faster on GPUs and scale across multiple GPUs within a single node. A GPU provides a single-instruction-multiple data (SIMD) multiprocessor which achieves efficiency by sharing instruction decoding across a plurality of arithmetic logic units (ALUs), and therefore is efficient where the same instructions are executed concurrently on multiple data entries.

Neural networks may be trained by back propagation of errors, which is a statistical optimization technique to minimize the error in the output over the training data.

Let δ(l+1) be the error term for the (l+1)-st layer in the network with a cost function (W,b;x,y) here (W,b) are the parameters and (x,y) are the training data and label pairs. If the l-th layer is densely connected to the (l+1)-st layer, then the error for the l-th layer is computed as

δ^((l)) = ((W^((l)))^(T)δ^((l + 1))) • f^(′)(z^((l)))

and the gradients are

∇_(W^((l)))J(W, b; x, y) = δ^((l + 1))(a^((l)))^(T),

∇_(b^((l)))J(W, b; x, y) = δ^((l + 1)).

If the l-th layer is a convolutional and subsampling layer then the error is propagated through as

δ_(k)^((l)) = upsample ((W_(k)^((l)))^(T)δ_(k)^((l + 1))) • f^(′)(z_(k)^((l)))

Where k indexes the filter number and

f f^(′)(z_(k)^((l)))

is the derivative of the activation function. The upsample operation has to propagate the error through the pooling layer by calculating the error w.r.t to each unit incoming to the pooling layer. For example, if case of mean pooling, then upsample simply uniformly distributes the error for a single pooling unitamong the units which feed into it in the previous layer. In max pooling the unit which was chosen as the max receives all the error since very small changes in input would perturb the result only through that unit.

Finally, to calculate the gradient w.r.t to the filter maps, the border handling convolution operation is relied on again and flip the error matrix

δ_(k)^((l))

the same way the filters are flipped in the convolutional layer.

$\nabla_{W_{k}^{(l)}}J\left( {W,b;x,y} \right)\quad = \mspace{6mu}{\sum\limits_{i = 1}^{m}{\left( a_{i}^{(l)} \right) \ast \mspace{6mu}\text{rot90}}}\left( {\delta_{k}^{({l + 1})},2} \right),$

$\nabla_{b_{k}^{(l)}}J\left( {W,b;x,y} \right)\quad = {\sum\limits_{a,b}{\left( \delta_{k}^{({l + 1})} \right)_{a,b}.}}$

Where a^((l)) is the input to the l-th layer, and a⁽¹⁾ is the input image. The operation

(a_(i)^((l))) * δ_(k)^((l + 1))

is the “valid” convolution between i-th input in the l-th layer and the error w.r.t. the k-th filter.

See, Deep Learning References.

2.7 Generative Adversarial Network

A generative adversarial network (GAN) is a class of machine learning frameworks designed by Ian Goodfellow and his colleagues in 2014. Two neural networks contest with each other in a game (in the form of a zero-sum game, where one agent’s gain is another agent’s loss).

Given a training set, this technique learns to generate new data with the same statistics as the training set. For example, a GAN trained on photographs can generate new photographs that look at least superficially authentic to human observers, having many realistic characteristics. Though originally proposed as a form of generative model for unsupervised learning, GANs have also proven useful for semi-supervised learning, fully supervised learning, and reinforcement learning. The core idea of a GAN is based on the “indirect” training through the discriminator, which itself is also being updated dynamically. This basically means that the generator is not trained to minimize the distance to a specific image, but rather to fool the discriminator. This enables the model to learn in an unsupervised manner.

The generative network generates candidates while the discriminative network evaluates them. The contest operates in terms of data distributions. Typically, the generative network learns to map from a latent space to a data distribution of interest, while the discriminative network distinguishes candidates produced by the generator from the true data distribution. The generative network’s training objective is to increase the error rate of the discriminative network (i.e., “fool” the discriminator network by producing novel candidates that the discriminator thinks are not synthesized (are part of the true data distribution)).

A known dataset serves as the initial training data for the discriminator. Training it involves presenting it with samples from the training dataset, until it achieves acceptable accuracy. The generator trains based on whether it succeeds in fooling the discriminator. Typically, the generator is seeded with randomized input that is sampled from a predefined latent space (e.g. a multivariate normal distribution). Thereafter, candidates synthesized by the generator are evaluated by the discriminator. Independent backpropagation procedures are applied to both networks so that the generator produces better images, while the discriminator becomes more skilled at flagging synthetic images. The generator is typically a deconvolutional neural network, and the discriminator is a convolutional neural network.

Bidirectional GAN (BiGAN) aims to introduce a generator model to act as the discriminator, whereby the discriminator naturally considers the entire translation space so that the inadequate training problem can be alleviated. To satisfy this property, generator and discriminator are both designed to model the joint probability of sentence pairs, with the difference that, the generator decomposes the joint probability with a source language model and a source-to-target translation model, while the discriminator is formulated as a target language model and a target-to-source translation model. To further leverage the symmetry of them, an auxiliary GAN is introduced and adopts generator and discriminator models of original one as its own discriminator and generator respectively. Two GANs are alternately trained to update the parameters. The resulting learned feature representation is useful for auxiliary supervised discrimination tasks, competitive with contemporary approaches to unsupervised and self-supervised feature learning.

2.8 Variational AutoEncoders

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) may be used to design complex generative models of data, and fit them to large datasets. Variational autoencoders (VAEs) were defined in 2013 by Kingma et al (2013) and Rezende et al. (2014). In neural net language, a variational autoencoder consists of an encoder, a decoder, and a loss function.

The encoder is a neural network. Its input is a datapoint x, its output is a hidden representation z, and it has weights and biases θ. The encoder ‘encodes’ the data from a high dimensional space into a latent (hidden) representation space z, which is lower dimensionality. This is typically referred to as a ‘bottleneck’ because the encoder must learn an efficient compression of the data into this lower-dimensional space. The decoder is another neural net. Its input is the representation z, it outputs the parameters to the probability distribution of the data, and has weights and biases ϕ. The loss function of the variational autoencoder is the negative log-likelihood with a regularizer. Because there are no global representations that are shared by all datapoints, the loss function can be decomposed into only terms that depend on a single datapoint. This allows us to use stochastic gradient descent with respect to the parameters λ.

-   Variational Autoencoder (VAE): in neural net language, a VAE     consists of an encoder, a decoder, and a loss function. In     probability model terms, the variational autoencoder refers to     approximate inference in a latent Gaussian model where the     approximate posterior and model likelihood are parametrized by     neural nets (the inference and generative networks). -   Loss function: in neural net language, consider loss functions.     Training means minimizing these loss functions. But in variational     inference, the ELBO is maximized (which is not a loss function).     This leads to awkwardness like calling optimizer.minimize(-elbo) as     optimizers in neural net frameworks only support minimization. -   Encoder: in the neural net world, the encoder is a neural network     that outputs a representation z of data x. In probability model     terms, the inference network parametrizes the approximate posterior     of the latent variables z. The inference network outputs parameters     to the distribution q(z|x). -   Decoder: in deep learning, the decoder is a neural net that learns     to reconstruct the data x given a representation z. In terms of     probability models, the likelihood of the data xx given latent     variables z is parametrized by a generative network. The generative     network outputs parameters to the likelihood distribution p(x|z). -   Local latent variables: these are the z_(i) for each datapoint     x_(i). There are no global latent variables. Because there are only     local latent variables, the ELBO can be easily decomposed into terms     £ that depend only on a single datapoint x_(i). This enables     stochastic gradient descent. -   Inference: in neural nets, inference usually means prediction of     latent representations given new, never-before-seen datapoints. In     probability models, inference refers to inferring the values of     latent variables given observed data.

Mean-field variational inference refers to a choice of a variational distribution that factorizes across the NN data points, with no shared parameters:

$q(z)\mspace{6mu} = \mspace{6mu}{\prod\limits_{i}^{N}{q\left( {z_{i};\lambda_{i}} \right)}}$

This means there are free parameters for each datapoint λ_(i) = (µ_(i);σ_(i)) for Gaussian latent variables). ELBO is maximized for each new datapoint, with respect to its mean-field parameter(s) λ_(i).

Amortized inference refers to ‘amortizing’ the cost of inference across datapoints. One way to do this is by sharing (amortizing) the variational parameters λ across datapoints. For example, in the variational autoencoder, the parameters θ of the inference network. These global parameters are shared across all datapoints. To see what the approximate posterior q(z_(i)) of a new datapoint looks like, a variational inference can be run again (maximizing the ELBO until convergence), or the shared parameters trusted as being ‘good-enough’. This can be an advantage over mean-field.

3. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The recent proliferation of fake portrait videos poses direct threats on society, law, and privacy [1]. Believing the fake video of a politician, distributing fake pornographic content of celebrities, fabricating impersonated fake videos as evidence in courts are just a few real-world consequences of deep fakes. Fakecatcher, a novel approach to detect synthetic content in portrait videos is provided, as a preventive solution for the emerging threat of deep fakes. In other words, the present technology provides a deep fake detector. Detectors blindly utilizing deep learning are not effective in catching fake content, as generative models produce formidably realistic results. Biological signals hidden in portrait videos can be used as an implicit descriptor of authenticity, because they are neither spatially nor temporally preserved in fake content. Several signal transformations are formulated and engaged for the pairwise separation problem, achieving 99.39% accuracy. Those findings were used to formulate a generalized classifier for fake content, by analyzing proposed signal transformations and corresponding feature sets. Signal maps are generated, and a CNN is employed to improve on a traditional classifier for detecting synthetic content. FakeCatcher was evaluated on several datasets, resulting with 96%, 94.65%, 91.50%, and 91.07% accuracies, on Face Forensics [2], Face Forensics++ [3], CelebDF [4], and on a new Deep Fakes Dataset respectively. In addition, FakeCatcher produces a significantly superior detection rate against baselines, and does not depend on the source generator, or properties of the fake content. Signals from various facial regions are analyzed, under image distortions, with varying segment durations, from different generators, against unseen datasets, and using several dimensionality reduction techniques.

Traditionally, image spoofing and forgery has been an important topic in forensics and security, with corresponding pixel and frequency analysis solutions to detect visual artifacts [23]. These methods, in addition to early deep generative models, were able to create some inauthentic content. However, results were easily classified as fake or real by humans, as opposed to deep fakes.

3.1. GAN Empowerment

Following GANs proposed by Goodfellow et al. [5], deep learning models have been advancing in generative tasks for inpainting [24], translation [7], and editing [25]. Inherently, all generative approaches suffer from the control over generation. In the context of GANs, this problem is mostly explored by Variational Autoencoders (VAE) [26] and Conditional GANs [27] to control the generation by putting constraints in the latent space. In addition to the improvements in controlling GANs, other approaches improved training efficiency, accuracy, and realism of GANs by deep convolutions [6], Wasserstein distances [28], least squares [29], and progressive growing [30]. It is arguable that these developments, in addition to the availability of such models, seeded the authenticity problem.

3.2. Synthetic Faces

Since Viola-Jones [31], computer vision community treasures the domain of facial images and videos as one of the primary application areas. Therefore, numerous applications and explorations of GANs emerged for face completion [11], facial attribute manipulation [32], [33], [34], frontal view synthesis [35], facial-reenactment [36], [37], [38], identity-preserving synthesis [39], and expression editing [40]. In particular, advancements in generative power, realism, and efficiency of VAEs and GANs for facial reenactment and video synthesis resulted in the emergence of the “deep fake” concept, which is replacing the face of a target person with another face in a given video, as seamless as possible. The exact approach is not published, however the deep fake generator is assumed to consist of two autoencoders trained on source and target videos: Keeping the encoder weights similar, so that general features can be embedded in the encoder and face-specific features can be integrated by the decoder. Another approach, Face2Face [37], reconstructs a target face from a video and then warps it with the blend shapes obtained by the source video in real-time. Deep Video Portraits [36] and vid2vid [8] follow this approach and employ GANs instead of blend shapes. Overall, the results are realistic, but there are still skipped frames and face misalignments due to illumination, occlusion, compression, and sudden motions.

3.3. Image Forensics

In par with the increasing number of inauthentic facial images and videos, methods for detecting such have also been proposed. Those are mostly based on finding inconsistencies in images, such as detecting distortions [41], finding compression artifacts [42], and assessing image quality [43]. However, for synthetic images in this context, the noise and distortions are harder to detect due to the non-linearity and complexity of the learning process [44].

There exist two different strategies to tackle this problem, (i) pure deep learning-based approaches that act as a detector of a specific generative model [20], [45], [46], [47], [48], [49], [50], and (ii) semantic approaches that evaluate the generated faces’ realism [22], [51], [52]. These are summarized in Table 1. The methods in the first branch investigate the color and noise distributions of specific networks [53], [54], [55] or specific people [21], or train CNNs blindly for synthetic images [20], [45], [50]. However, they are unfit to be accepted as general synthetic portrait video detection mechanisms, as they rely heavily on detecting artifacts inherent to specific models. Semantic approaches, on the other hand, utilize inconsistencies in the biological domain, such as facial attributes [51], [56], mouth movement inconsistency [52], and blink detection [22]. The motivation follows the second stream, however real signals are explored instead of physical attributes. Thus, the input is continuous, complex, and stable; making the system embrace both perspectives.

3.4. Biological Signals

The remote extraction of biological signals roots back to the medical community to explore less invasive methods for patient monitoring. Observing subtle changes of color and motion in RGB videos [65], [66] enable methods such as color based remote photoplethysmography (rPPG or iPPG) [67], [68] and head motion based ballistocardiogram (BCD) [69]. Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a focus, as it is more robust against dynamically changing scenes and actors, while BCD cannot be extracted if the actor is not still (i.e., sleeping). Several approaches proposed improvements over the quality of the extracted PPG signal and towards the robustness of the extraction process. The variations in proposed improvements include using chrominance features [70], green channel components [71], optical properties [72], Kalman filters [73], and different facial areas [67], [71], [72], [74].

All of these PPG variations contain valuable information in the context of fake videos. In addition, inter-consistency of PPG signals from various locations on a face is higher in real videos than those in synthetic ones. Multiple signals also help us regularize environmental effects (illumination, occlusion, motion, etc.) for robustness. Thus, a combination of G channel-based PPG (or G-PPG, or G*) [71] is used, where the PPG signal is extracted only from the green color channel of an RGB image (which is robust against compression artifacts); and chrominance-based PPG (or C-PPG, or C*) [70] which is robust against illumination artifacts. Thus, a combination of aforementioned biological signals is employed, as described in more detail below.

3.5. Deep Fake Collections

As the data dependency of GANs increases, their generative power increases, so detection methods’ need for generated samples increases. Such datasets are also essential for the evaluation of novel methodologies. Based on the release date and the generative methods, there are two generations of datasets which significantly differ in size and source.

The first generation includes (i) UADFV [56], which contains 49 real and 49 fake videos generated using FakeApp [75]; (ii) DFTIMIT [64], which includes 620 deep fake videos from 32 subjects using Faceswap-GAN [76]; and (iii) Face Forensics [2] (FF) which has original and synthetic video pairs with the same content and actor, and another compilation of original and synthetic videos, all of which are created using the same generative model [37]. The train/validation/test subsets of FF are given as 704 (70%), 150 (15%) and 150 (15%) real/fake video pairs respectively.

The second generation aims to increase the generative model diversity while also increasing the dataset size. Face Forensics++ [3] (FF++) dataset employs 1,000 real YouTube videos and generates the same number of synthetic videos with four generative models, namely Face2Face [37], Deepfakes [57], FaceSwap [59] and Neural Textures [77]. Google/Jigsaw dataset [78] contains 3068 synthetic videos based on 363 originals of 28 individuals using an unrevealed method. Lastly, Celeb-DF [4] dataset consists of 590 real and 5639 synthetic videos of 59 celebrities, generated by swapping faces using [57]. The dataset has class imbalance, which results in side effects in some results.

For the present experiments, analysis, and evaluation, two datasets from each generation were employed; namely UADFV, FF, FF++, and Celeb-DF, in addition to the Deep Fakes Dataset described herein.

4. BIOLOGICAL SIGNAL ANALYSIS ON FAKE AND AUTHENTIC VIDEO PAIRS

The following six signals S = {G_(L), G_(R), G_(M), C_(L), C_(R), C_(M)) are employed that are combinations of G-PPG [71] and C-PPG [70] on the left cheek, right cheek [72], and mid-region [74]. Each signal is named with channel and face region in subscript.

FIG. 2C shows biological signals: Green (top) and chrom-PPG (middle) extracted from left (L red), middle (M green), and right (R blue) regions; heart rates (bottom); and sample frames of original (left) and synthetic (right) videos. FIGS. 2A and 2B demonstrate those signals extracted from a real (FIG. 2A)-fake (FIG. 2B) video pair, where each signal is color-coded with the facial region it is extracted from. Signal and transformation notations are declared in Table 2 and transformations in Table 3.

In order to understand the nature of biological signals in the context of synthetic content, signal responses in original (PPG_(o)) and synthetic (PPG_(s)) video pairs are first compared using traditional signal processing methods: log scale (L), Butterworth filter [79] (H), power spectral density (P), and combinations (FIGS. 4A and 4B). Signals (top) and their derivatives (bottom) are compared and that distinction formulated (i.e., fourth column shows contrasting structure for their power spectra). Here, the preservation of spatial coherence and temporal consistency is observed in authentic videos, and an error metric that encapsulates these findings in a generalized classifier is desired. This analysis also sets ground for understanding generative systems in terms of biological replicability.

4.1. Statistical Features

FIGS. 3A and 3B show pairwise analysis. Example original and synthetic signal pair CMo and CMs, their derivatives δCM, power spectral densities P (L(CM)), discrete cosine transforms X(CM), cross correlation φ(CM, CL)), and cross power spectral density Ap(SC) (FIG. 3A). Histograms of mean differences of these values for all pairs in the dataset (FIG. 3B). These features are aggregating the whole segment signals into single values that are not representative enough.

FIGS. 4A and 4B show characteristics of raw biological signals (top), same analysis on derivative of signals (bottom), from original (blue) and synthetic (orange) video pairs.

The first task is set as the pairwise separation problem: Given pairs of fake and authentic videos without their labels, can biological signals be taken advantage of for labeling these videos? 150 pairs are used in the test subset of Face Forensics [2] as a base, splitting each video into ω-length windows (the value for ω is extensively analyzed below). The analysis starts by comparing simple statistical properties such as mean(µ), standard deviation(σ), and min-max ranges of G_(M) and C_(M) from original and synthetic video pairs. The values of simple statistical properties between fake and real videos are observed, and selected the optimal threshold as the valley in the histogram of these values (FIGS. 3A and 3B, first row). By simply thresholding, an initial accuracy of 65% is observed for this pairwise separation task. Then, influenced by the signal behavior (FIGS. 4A and 4B), another histogram of these metrics is formulated on all absolute values of differences between consecutive frames for each segment (i.e., µ(G_(M)(t_(n))GM(t_(n)+₁))), achieving 75.69% accuracy again by finding a cut in the histogram (FIGS. 3A and 3B, second row). Although histograms of the implicit formulation per temporal segment is informative, a generalized detector can benefit from multiple signals, multiple facial areas, multiple frames in a more complex space. Instead of reducing all of this information to a single number, exploring the feature space of these signals can yield a more comprehensive descriptor for authenticity.

4.2. Power Spectra

In addition to analyzing signals in time domain, their behavior is investigated in frequency domain. Thresholding their power spectrum density (P (S)) in linear and log scales results in an accuracy of 79.33% (similar to FIGS. 3A and 3B, third row) using the following formula:

$\begin{matrix} {\mu_{P}\left( G_{Lo} \right)\mspace{6mu} + \mspace{6mu}\sigma_{P}\left( G_{Lo} \right) - \left( {\mu_{P}\left( G_{Ls} \right)\mspace{6mu} + \mspace{6mu}\sigma_{P}\left( G_{Ls} \right)} \right)} & \text{­­­(1)} \end{matrix}$

where the definition of P can be found in Table 3 and G_(L) can be found in Table 2, and subscripts denote G_(L)O for original and G_(L)S for synthetic. Discrete cosine transforms (DCT) (X) of the log of these signals are investigated. Including DC and first three AC components, 77.41% accuracy is obtained.

The accuracy is improved to 91.33% by using only zero-frequency (DC value) of X.

4.3. Spatio-temporal Analysis

Combining the previous discussions, some analysis is also run for the coherence of biological signals within each segment. For robustness against illumination, alternation between C_(L) and C_(M) (Table 2), and computing cross-correlation of their power spectral density as φ(P(C_(M)), P(C_(L))) is employed. Comparing their maximum values gives 94.57% and mean values gives 97.28% accuracy for pairwise separation. This result is improved by first computing power spectral densities in log scale φ(L(P(C_(M))), L(P(C_(L)))) (98.79%), and even further by computing cross power spectral densities µ(A_(p)(L(S_(C) o)) - A_(p)(L(S_(C) s))) (99.39%). The fourth row in FIGS. 3A and 3B demonstrate that difference, where 99.39% of the pairs have an authentic video with more spatio-temporally coherent biological signals. This final formulation results in an accuracy of 95.06% on the entire Face Forensic dataset (train, test, and validation sets), and 83.55% on the Deep Fakes dataset.

5. GENERALIZED CONTENT CLASSIFIER

The metric to separate pairs of original and synthetic videos with an accuracy of 99.39% is promising to formulate the inconsistency into a generalized binary classifier. In the pairwise setting, comparison of aggregate spatiotemporal features are representative enough. However, as these signals are continuous and noisy, there is no universal hard limit to robustly classify such content. To build a generalized classifier, several signal transformations in time and frequency domains (as defined in Table 3) to explore the artifacts of synthetic content towards characteristic feature sets (Table 4). FIG. 13 shows video classification, and in particular an SVM-based classifier flowchart.

5.1. Feature Sets

Several features to be extracted from the signals are declared in Table 3. Due to the fact that rPPG is mostly evaluated by the accuracy in heart rate, other features used in image authenticity [44], classification of Electroencephalography (EEG) signals [85], [87], statistical analysis [82], [83], [86], and emotion recognition [80], [87]. These feature sets are enumerated in Table 4 together with the reference papers for biological signal classification.

5.2. Authenticity Classification

Following the motivation to understand biological signals in the context of fake content, interpretable features with no assumption on the fake content are sought. This is the key that leads us to employ SVMs with an RBF kernel [89] for this binary classification task, instead of a DNN. Many experiments were conducted by training an SVM using feature vectors extracted from the training set, and then report the accuracy of that SVM on the test set. All of these experiments are denoted with F∗(T(S)) where F ∗ is the feature extractor from Table 4 applied to (transformed) signal T(S) from Table 3. Both signal transformation and feature extraction can be applied to all elements of the inner set.

For exploration, all subsets of Face Forensics (FF) dataset [2] were combined, and the combined set randomly split to train (1540 samples, 60%) and test sets (1054 samples, 40%). Feature vectors were created with maximum and mean (F₁) of cross power spectral densities of SC(A_(p)(Sc)) for all videos in the train set, as it was the feature with the highest accuracy. Unlike pairwise results, SVM accuracy with f = F₁(A_(p)(S_(C))) is low (68.93%) but this sets a baseline for next steps. Next, classification by ƒ=µ_(P(S)) (six features per sample) achieving 68.88% accuracy, and by f = µ_(Ap)(_(DC)) Uµ_(A(S)) (9 features) achieving 69.63% accuracy was performed on the entire FF dataset. Table 5 lists 7 of 70 experiments done using a combination of features. These chronologically higher results indicate the driving points of experimentation, each of these led to either pursuit of a feature set, or to leave it out completely. The other 63 experiments, both on FF dataset and the Deep Fakes dataset, are listed below.

Based on the experiments, a conclusion was formed that “authenticity” (i) is observed both in time and frequency domains, (ii) is highly sensitive to small changes in motion, illumination, and compression if a single signal source is used, and (iii) can be discovered from coherence and consistency of multiple biological signals. The conclusion is inferred that (i) from high classification results when A(.), Â(.), and F₄ in time domain is used in conjunction with P(.), A_(p)(.), and F₃ in frequency domain; (ii) from low true negative numbers when only S is used instead of D_(c) or D, or only using F₅ or F₆, and (iii) from high accuracies when D_(c), φ(.), A_(p)(.), and F₁ is used to correlate multiple signals (Table 5). The system is expected to be independent of any generative model, compression/transmission artifact, and content-related influence: a robust and generalized FakeCatcher, based on the essence of temporal consistency and spatial coherence of biological signals in authentic videos. The experimental results conclude on the following implicit formulation,

$\begin{matrix} {f\mspace{6mu} = \mspace{6mu}\mspace{6mu}\mspace{6mu}\mspace{6mu} F_{1}\left( {log\left( D_{C} \right)} \right)\mspace{6mu} U} \\ {\mspace{6mu}\mspace{6mu}\mspace{6mu} F_{3}\left( {log(S)\mspace{6mu} UA_{p}\left( D_{C} \right)} \right)\mspace{6mu} U} \\ {\mspace{6mu}\mspace{6mu}\mspace{6mu} F_{4}\left( {log(S)\mspace{6mu} UA_{p}\left( D_{C} \right)} \right)U} \\ {\mspace{6mu}\mspace{6mu}\mspace{6mu}\mu\hat{A}(S)\mspace{6mu} Umax\left( {\hat{A}(S)} \right)\mspace{6mu}} \end{matrix}$

where 126 features were gathered combining F₁, F₃, F₄ sets, on log transforms, pairwise cross spectral densities, and spectral autocorrelations, of single source S and multi-source D_(c) signals. The SVM classifier trained with these 126 features on the FF dataset results in 75% accuracy. The same experiment was performed on the Deep Fakes dataset (with a 60/40 split) obtaining an accuracy of 76.78%.

5.3. Probabilistic Video Classification

As mentioned above, the videos are split into ω-interval segments for authenticity classification. Considering that the end goal is to classify videos, the segment labels were aggregated into video labels by majority voting. Majority voting increases the segment classification accuracy of 75% to 78.18% video classification accuracy within Face Forensics dataset, hinting that some hard failure segments can be neglected due to significant motion or illumination changes. Consequently, a weighted voting scheme compensates the effect of these erroneous frames. In order to achieve that, the class confidences are needed instead of discrete class labels, thus SVM is converted to a support vector regression (SVR). Instead of a class prediction of SVM, SVR allowed learning the probability of a given segment to be real or synthetic. The expectation of the probabilities as the true threshold was used to classify authenticity. Also, if there is a tie in majority voting, it was weighed towards the expectation. Using the probabilistic video classification, the video classification accuracy was increased to 82.55% in Face Forensics and to 80.35% in Deep Fakes dataset.

5.4. CNN-Based Classification

In investigating the failure cases of the probabilistic authenticity classifier, the misclassification rate of marking real segments as synthetic segments (false positive, FP) is determined to be higher than the misclassification rate of marking synthetic segments as real segments (false negative, FN). The samples ending up as false positives contain artifacts that corrupt PPG signals, such as camera movement, motion and uneven illumination. In order to improve the resiliency against such artifacts, the coherence of signals can be exploited by increasing the number of regions of interests (ROIs) within a face. Coherence is hypothesized to be observed stronger in real videos, as artifacts tend to be localized into specific regions in the face. However, packing more signals will exponentially grow the already complex feature space for the authenticity classifier. Therefore, a CNN-based classifier is employed, which is more suitable for a higher-dimensional segment classification task. FIG. 5 shows a CNN Architecture, with three convolutional layers with max pooling, followed by dense layers. FIG. 14 shows video classification, and in particular a CNN-based classifier flowchart.

5.4.1. PPG Maps

C_(M) signals are extracted from the mid-region of faces, as it is robust against non-planar rotations. To generate same size subregions, the non-rectangular ROI is mapped into a rectangular one using Delaunay Triangulation [90], therefore each pixel in the actual ROI (each data point for C_(M)) corresponds to the same pixel in the generated rectangular image. The rectangular image is divided into 32 same size sub-regions. For each of these sub-regions, C_(M) = (C_(M)0, ..., C_(M)ω} is calculated, and normalized to [0, 255] interval. These values are combined for each sub-region within ω frame window into an ω × 32 image, called PPG map, where each row holds one sub-region and each column holds one frame. Example real and synthetic PPG maps are shown in FIG. 6 , in the first two rows. PPG signals per sub-region per frame are converted into 128×32 images for five synthetic (top) and original (bottom) segments.

5.4.2. Learning Authenticity

A simple three-layer convolutional network with pooling layers in between and two dense connections at the end (FIG. 5 ) are used. ReLU activations are used except the last layer, which is a sigmoid to output binary labels. A dropout is added before the last layer to prevent overfitting. No data augmentation is performed, and PPG maps are fed directly. The model achieves 88.97% segment and 90.66% video classification accuracy when trained on FF train set and tested on the FF test set with ω = 128. Similarly, the model obtains 80.41% segment and 82.69% video classification accuracy when trained on the Deep Fakes Dataset with a random split of 60/40.

5.4.3. Spectral PPG Maps

The frequency domain also holds important consistency information for detecting authentic content. Thus, the PPG maps are enhanced with the addition of encoding binned power spectral densities P(C_(M)) = {P(C_(M))₀, ..., P(C_(M))_(ω)} from each sub-region, creating ω × 64 size images. Examples of the real and synthetic spectral PPG maps are shown in the last two rows of FIG. 6 . This attempt to exploit temporal consistency improves the accuracy for segment and video classification to 94.26% and 96% in Face Forensics, and 87.42% and 91.07% in Deep Fakes Dataset. Further classification results on different datasets are reported in Tables 15 and 10, such as 91.50% on Celeb-DF, 94.65% on FF++, and 97.36% on UADFV.

6. OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION

It is therefore an object of the invention to provide a method of analyzing a portrait video for indicia of synthetic origin, comprising: receiving video information; determining a spatial coherence and temporal consistency of biological signals of a subject of the portrait represented in the video information; and producing an output dependent on the determined spatial and temporal consistency.

The determining may be performed with a synthetic video classifier, which is preferably a neural network, and more preferably a convolutional neural network.

It is also an object to provide a method of increasing a perceived authenticity of a portrait video, comprising: receiving video information; determining biological signals of the subject of the video; modifying the biological signals to increase spatial coherence and temporal consistency; and outputting the video information having the modified biological signals.

It is a further object to provide a method of analyzing a video comprising exposed skin for indicia of synthetic origin, comprising: receiving the video; determining a spatial coherence and temporal consistency of biological signals represented in the video of the skin; and producing an output dependent on the determined spatial and temporal consistency.

The determining may be performed with a synthetic video classifier The synthetic video classifier may comprise a convolutional neural network.

The video may comprise color images, further comprising extracting the biological signals using photoplethysmography. The spatial coherence may be is responsive differences in cyclic cardiac cycles over regions of the skin. The skin may comprise a human face.

The method may further comprise performing pattern recognition of the video to identify a region of the skin, and tracking movement of the region of the skin over time, wherein the spatial coherence is normalized for the position of the region of the skin.

The determining may be performed by a convolutional neural network trained with synthetic video training examples. The determining may be performed by a convolutional neural network trained with natural video training examples and corresponding synthetically modified natural video training examples, to detect synthetically modified natural video within a set of unclassified video.

The method may further comprise extracting a feature vector from at least biological signals in the video, and classifying the video dependent on the feature vector with a probabilistic video classifier.

It is also an object to provide a method of increasing a realism of a portrait video, comprising: receiving video information; determining biological signals of the subject of the video; modifying the biological signals to increase spatial coherence and temporal consistency; and outputting the video information having the modified biological signals.

The determining may be performed with a synthetic video classifier comprising a convolutional neural network. The determining may also be performed with a synthetic video classifier comprising a support vector network.

The video may comprise color images, the method further comprising extracting the biological signals using photoplethysmography, wherein the modifying increases the spatial and temporal consistency of photoplethysmography signals from regions of exposed skin in the video. The skin may comprise a human face. In order to increase the spatial and temporal consistency of photoplethysmography signals, at least two options are available; first, generating a deepfake with an underlying cardiovascular model, such that the synthesis is biologically accurate in that regard, and second, inverting the detector and detection technology as described herein, to reduce the spatiotemporal indicia of fake origin below a statistical detection threshold, which may be performed without a cardiovascular model per se.

The method may further comprise performing pattern recognition of the video to identify a region of the skin; tracking movement of the region of the skin over time; determining the spatial and temporal coherence of the skin normalized for the position of the region of the skin; and said modifying comprising synthesizing a pattern of normalized spatial and temporal coherence of the skin to correspond to a natural spatial and temporal coherence of the skin.

The method may further comprise extracting a feature vector from the video, and classifying the video dependent on the feature vector with a probabilistic video classifier.

It is also an object to provide a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for controlling a programmable processor to analyze a received video comprising exposed skin for indicia of synthetic origin, comprising: instructions for determining a spatial coherence and temporal consistency of biological signals represented in the video of the skin; and instructions for producing an output dependent on the determined spatial and temporal consistency of the biological signals. The instructions for determining may comprise: instructions for extracting a feature vector from the video comprising biological signal features; instructions for classifying the feature vector; and instructions for implementing a convolutional neutral network trained to distinguish between video modified with synthetic elements corresponding to exposed skin and natural video of exposed skin. The instructions for determining comprise extracting the biological signals from the video using photoplethysmography.

It is a further object to provide a system for of analyzing a video comprising exposed skin for indicia of synthetic origin, comprising: an input port configured to receive the video; at least one automated processor responsive to a spatial coherence and temporal consistency of biological signals represented in the video of the skin, configured to extract a feature vector from the video comprising biological signals; classify the feature vector; and determine a likelihood of synthetic origin with a probabilistic video classifier; and an output port configured to communicate a signal selectively responsive to a probability of synthetic origin of the video, dependent on the determined spatial and temporal consistency.

The probabilistic video classifier may comprise a convolutional neural network.

The video may comprise color images, and the at least one automated processor is configured to comprising the feature vector comprising the biological signals by photoplethysmography.

The video of the skin may comprise an image of a live human face, and the photoplethysmography may be performed on facial skin.

The at least one automated processor may be further configured to perform pattern recognition of the video to identify a region of the skin, and to determine the spatial and temporal coherence of the skin dependent on the pattern recognition.

7. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIGS. 1A-1E show a schematic overview of a preferred embodiment of a process according to the present invention, in which biological signals (FIG. 1C) are extracted from facial regions (FIG. 1B) on authentic and fake portrait video pairs (FIG. 1A). Transformations are applied to compute spatial coherence and temporal consistency (FIG. 1D), capture signal characteristics in feature sets and PPG maps (FIG. 1E), and train a probabilistic SVM and a CNN (FIGS. 1F and 1G). Then, authenticity probabilities are aggregated to decide whether the video is fake or authentic (FIG. 1H).

FIGS. 2A-2C show a comparison of biological signals from original and synthetic video pairs. FIG. 2A shows a sample frame of the original video. FIG. 2B shows a sample frame of the synthetic video. FIG. 2C shows Green PPG (top) and chrom-PPG (middle) extracted from left (L red), middle (M green), and right (R blue) regions, and heart rates (bottom).

FIGS. 3A and 3B show a pairwise analysis, in which FIG. 3A shows original and synthetic signal pair CMo and CMs, their derivatives δCM, power spectral densities P (L(CM)), discrete cosine transforms X(CM), cross correlation φ(CM, CL)), and cross power spectral density Ap(SC). Histograms of mean differences of these values for all pairs in the dataset (right).

FIGS. 4A and 4B show characteristics of raw biological signals (top), same analysis on derivative of signals (bottom), from original (blue) and synthetic (orange) video pairs.

FIG. 5 shows an exemplary convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture, having three convolutional layers with max pooling, followed by dense layers.

FIG. 6 shows PPG Maps, in which PPG signals per sub-region, per frame, are converted into 128×32 images for five synthetic (top) and original (bottom) segments.

FIG. 7 shows representative of a Deep Fakes Dataset, in which a diverse dataset of original (top) and fake (bottom) video pairs is introduced from online sources.

FIGS. 8A-8E show region of interest (ROI) Contours, which may be whole face (FIG. 8A), big ROI (FIG. 8B), default (FIG. 8C), small ROI (FIG. 8D), and few pixels (FIG. 8E), for GL and CL (blue), for GM and CM (green), and for GR and CR (red).

FIGS. 9A-9C show an ROI Comparison, with Pairwise separation (FIG. 9A), segment (FIG. 9B), and video (FIG. 9C) classification accuracy per several ROIs, on FF and DF datasets.

FIG. 10 shows face detection dependency, where FakeCatcher catches a fake video with multiple faces (top) as 91.7% fake, a fake video with 3% face detection confidence (left) as 99.97% fake, and a real video with 17% face detection confidence (right) as 65.47% real.

FIGS. 11A-11C demonstrate robustness, for the original (FIG. 11A) and blurred images with 7×7 (FIG. 11B) and 11×11 (FIG. 11C) kernels.

FIGS. 12A-12C shows the feature space, with original (red) and synthetic (blue) samples in three dominant component space, extracted using PCA (FIG. 12A), LDA (FIG. 12B), and CSP (FIG. 12C).

FIG. 13 shows a schematic representation of a video classification process, with an SVM-based classifier flowchart.

FIG. 14 shows a schematic representation of a video classification process, with an CNN-based classifier flowchart.

FIG. 15 shows a schematic system overview of a system according to the present invention.

8. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

In recent years, technology development of deep learning has advanced to the level of high realism in creating synthetic videos. Such deep fake videos posted a big threat to video authentication for security, safety, privacy protection, as well as health-care safety. A novel approach is presented to detect synthetic content in portrait videos, as a preventive solution for the emerging threat of deep fakes.

Biological signals (e.g., vital sign heart rate) hidden in portrait videos can be used as an implicit descriptor of authenticity, because they are neither spatially nor temporally preserved in fake content. Signal transformation is used to formulate a generalized classifier for fake content, by analyzing those signals and corresponding feature sets. Then, novel signal maps are generated and a CNN employed to improve the traditional classifier for detecting synthetic content.

The system utilizes Matlab [91] for signal processing, Open Face library [92] for face detection, libSVM [93] for the classification experiments, Wavelab [94] for Wavelet transformation and F₅ feature set, and Keras [95] for network implementations.

8.1. Deep Fakes Dataset

The external datasets employed are explained above. Although FF is a clean dataset perfect for initial experiments, the generalizability of the findings need be assessed. For this purpose, a new database (so-called Deep Fakes Dataset (DF)) was created, which is a set of portrait videos collected “in the wild”. The videos in the dataset are diverse real-world samples in terms of the source generative model, resolution, compression, illumination, aspect-ratio, frame rate, motion, pose, cosmetics, occlusion, content, and context, as it originates from various sources such as media sources, news articles, and research presentations; totaling up to 142 videos, 32 minutes, and 30 GBs. For each synthetic video, the original counterpart was searched for, if it is not presented with its source. For example, if a synthetic video is generated from a movie, the real movie was found and cropped the corresponding segment. When the source could not be located, a similar video was included to preserve the class balance (i.e., for a given fake award speech, a similar (in size, location, and length) original award speech was included). This variation does not only increase the diversity of the synthetic samples, but it also makes the dataset more challenging by breaking possible real-fake associations.

FIG. 7 demonstrates a subset of the Deep Fakes Dataset, original videos placed in the top half and fakes in the bottom half. High accuracy on Deep Fakes Dataset substantiates that FakeCatcher is robust to low-resolution, compression, motion, illumination, occlusion, pose, and cosmetics artifacts; that enrich the input and slightly reduce the accuracy, without preprocessing. Cross-dataset evaluations were performed, which support the aforementioned claims about generalizability.

8.2. Evaluations

Several evaluations were conducted to establish the approach as state-of-the-art solution for deep fake detection. First, the use of biological signals was justified by several comparisons to off the shelf deep learning solutions and to other fake detectors. Second, several crucial experiments are listed to guide the combinatorial signal-feature space. Third, experimental findings are summarized and related to each result.

8.2.1. Quantitative Comparisons

In order to promote the effect of biological signals on the detection rate, experiments are performed with several networks: (i) a simple CNN, (ii) Inception V3 [96], (iii) Xception [97], (iv) ConvLSTM [98], (v-vii) three best networks proposed in [45], and (viii) an approach according to the present technology.

All experiments in Table 6 are performed on the same 60% train and 40% test split of the Deep Fakes Dataset, with same meta parameters. The Deep Fakes Dataset was chosen for comparison, because it is more generalizable as discussed in the previous section. For ConvLSTM and the present technology, “Frame” and “Face” indicate segment accuracy, for others they indicate frame accuracy. The last column is video accuracy. [45] was not run on face images because their approach utilizes background, and the present technology was not run on entire frames because there is no biological signal in the background. FakeCatcher outperforms the best baseline architecture by 8.85%.

8.2.2. Qualitative Comparisons

Even though “deep fakes” is a relatively new problem, there are a few papers in this domain. [2] employs a generative model for detection, but their model is restricted to their generative method in [37]. [20] also claims a high detection rate if the synthetic content is generated by [37] or the VAE used in the FakerApp. [22] reports high accuracy, however their approach is dependent on eye detection and parameterization. All of these [2], [20], [45] employ neural networks blindly and do not make an effort to understand the generative noise is experimentally characterized using biological signals.

Biological signals are not well-preserved in deep fakes. PPG maps encode authenticity using their spatial coherence and temporal consistency. Input frames are provided to a CNN, with faces cropped from input frames, and the PPG Maps per Table 6. Approaches incorporating biological signals are quantitatively more descriptive for deep fake detection compared to pure machine learning based approaches. Both spatial and temporal properties of biological signals are important. These enable the network to perform significantly better than complex and deeper networks without the present features.

8.2.3. Validation Experiments

The combination of signals and feature sets used are experimentally validated, namely 6 signals, in 11 transformations, in 126 features; explored in over 70 experiments. All experiments are documented with the signal transformation (Table 3), feature set (Table 4), and SVM classification accuracy, trained on FF (Table 8) and on DF datasets (Table 7), with ω = 128.

Furthermore, in Table 9, experiments are documented where specific subsets of Face Forensics were selected (FFT for train, FFX for test, and FFC for validation sets).

8.2.4. Summary of Experimental Outcomes and Findings

-   Spatial coherence: Biological signals are not coherently preserved     in different synthetic facial parts. -   Temporal consistency: Synthetic content does not contain frames with     stable PPG. Â and P of PPGs significantly differ. However,     inconsistency is not separable into frequency bands. -   Combined artifacts: Spatial inconsistency is augmented by temporal     incoherence (Experiments in 5.2.3(S_(C))). -   Artifacts as features: These artifacts can be captured in     explainable features by transforming biological signals (Tables 2, 3     and 4). However there exists no clear reduction of these feature     sets into lower dimensions, thus CNN performs better than SVM. -   Comprehensive analysis: Finally, the classifier has higher accuracy     for detection in the wild, for shorter videos, and for mid-size     ROIs.

8.3. Cross Dataset/Model Experiments

Training and testing were performed on (i) different datasets, and (i) datasets created by different generative models for the evaluation of the present approach. The cross-dataset experiments are conducted between Deep Fakes, Celeb-DF [4], FF [2], FF++ [3], and UADFV [56] datasets where the proposed approach was trained on one dataset and test on another (Table 10). Based on rows 5 and 6, the key observation is that FakeCatcher learns better from small and diverse datasets than on large and single source datasets. On one hand, training on DF and testing on FF is 18.73% higher than the other way around. On the other hand, DF is approximately only 5% of FF. The main difference between these datasets is that FF has a single generative model with no other artifacts, and DF is a completely in-the-wild dataset. If rows 3 and 6 are compared, it is observed that increasing diversity from FF to FF++, increases the accuracy on DF by 16.9%.

As mentioned above, FF++ [3] contains four synthetic videos per original video, where each of them is generated using a different generative model. First, original videos of FF++ are partitioned into train/test sets with 60/40 percentages. Four copies of these sets are created, and all samples generated deleted by a specific model from each set (column 1, Table 11, where each set contains 600 real and 1800 fake videos from three models for training, and 400 real and 400 fake videos from one model for test. Table 11 displays the results of the cross-model evaluation. Significantly accurate predictions are obtained, except NeuralTextures [77], as it is an inherently different generative model.

9. ANALYSIS

As variables are introduced into FakeCatcher, the best values for those parameters are assessed and revealed. Segment duration, face region, and different preprocessing techniques for PPGs are explored below. Furthermore, the explainable feature space for its information content was explored and its reaction to dimensionality reduction techniques observed.

9.1. Segment Duration Analysis

Table 12 documents results on the test set, the entire Face Forensics dataset, and Deep Fakes Dataset, using different segment durations. Top half shows the effect of ω on the pairwise classification. The choice of ω = 300 (10 sec) is long enough to detect strong correlations without including too many artifacts for video labels.

Preceded by probabilistic video classification, authenticity classifier can be used with different segment sizes. Selecting a long segment size can accumulate noise in biological signals, in contrast incorrectly labeled segments may be compensated in the later step if there are enough segments. Thus, selecting a relatively smaller segment duration ω = 180 (6 sec), increases the video classification accuracy while keeping it long enough to extract biological signals. Note that when ω is increased above a certain threshold, the accuracy drops for Deep Fakes Dataset. This is due to occlusion and illumination artifacts, because the segment covers more facial variety as ω increases. A correct balance of having sufficient segments versus sufficient length per segment is a crucial result of the present analysis.

9.2. Face Analysis

The dependency of the present technology on different face regions and on face detection accuracy is explored.

9.2.1. Size of Face Regions

For the SVM classifier, biological signals are extracted from three separate regions on the face, and the effects of different sizes for these regions of interests is considered. The ROIs are quantized as very small (a few pixels), small, default, big, and the whole face. Table 13 documents experiments with these ROIs, their corresponding number of pixels, dataset, segment duration (ω = 128 and for ω = 300), and number of segments, with resulting accuracies for pairwise, segment, and video tasks. The pairwise separation is plotted, segment classification, and video classification accuracies per ROI size, on two datasets in FIGS. 9A-9C. Lastly, these ROIs are shown on a sample video frame in FIGS. 8A-8E, where red contour corresponds to GL and CL, green to GM and CM, and blue to GR and CR. The default ROI is a generalizable choice with a good accuracy for all cases.

9.2.2. Face Detection Dependency

The method needs some visible skin to extract biological signals. A perfect face detector is not required, however some facial area must be found to extract the signal. The implementation is modular enough to enable using other face detectors and handle multiple faces, both of which affects the accuracy but not significantly. In order to assess the robustness against face detection accuracy, results are shown when (i) the face detection accuracy is very low, and (ii) the video has multiple faces.

In FIG. 10 , the results on unmodified but edge-case videos are shown. The top video contains two faces, they may be processed separately and each of them found to be fake, with an average confidence of 91.7%. On the left is a fake video, even though its face detection accuracy is 3% (very low compared to the average), FakeCatcher classifies this video as fake with 99.97%. Lastly, the real video on the right has a significant frame ordering problem, thus the face detector has 17% accuracy. Nevertheless, it is classified as real with 65%.

9.3. Image Quality Analysis

In order to estimate an exact heart rate, the PPG signal needs to have very low signal-to-noise-ratio. In contrast, the spatiotemporal inconsistency of PPGs is sufficient for the present approach to detect fakes. Even low quality authentic videos can still preserve this consistency, differentiating the dependency on low noise condition compared to the heart rate estimation task. To support this postulation, the detection accuracy is analyzed with images processed with two commonly used image processing operations: Gaussian blur and median filtering. The Celeb-DF [4] dataset is used, with different kernel sizes, fixing ω = 128 segment duration (Table 14). The accuracy stays relatively unaffected up to a kernel size of 7×7. Then, as expected, the larger the filter kernel is used, the lower the accuracy gets. Nevertheless, such large kernel blurs modify the image significantly enough that it does not matter if the image is authentic or fake (FIGS. 11A-11C).

9.4. Blind Source Separation

To better understand the features, feature sets, and their relative importance, the Fisher criterion detection [99] of linearly separable features is computed, if any. No significantly high ratio was observed, neither for LDA (linear discriminant analysis) [100], guiding us towards kernel based SVMs and more feature space exploration. PCA (principal component analysis) [101] and CSP (common spatial patterns) [102] were also applied to reduce the dimensionality of the feature spaces. FIGS. 12A-12C show 3D distribution of original (red) and synthetic (blue) samples by the most significant three components found by PCA (FIG. 12A), LDA (FIG. 12B), and CSP (FIG. 12C), without clear class boundaries. The feature vector was sought to be condensed with the best classification accuracy. However, 71% accuracy after PCA and 65.43% accuracy after CSP was achieved.

10. EXPERIMENTS 10.1. Datasets

First, the Face Forensics (FF) dataset [1] is used, which has (i) original and synthetic pairs of videos with same content and actor, and (ii) a compilation of original and synthetic videos, both of which are created using the same generative model [31]. The train/validation/test sets of [1] contain 704, 150 and 150 videos.

Although [1] is a clean dataset perfect for initial experiments, the generalizability of the findings need to be assessed. For this purpose, a new database (so-called Deep Fakes Dataset (DF)) was created, which is set of portrait videos collected “in the wild”, more than half of them being synthetic. The videos in the dataset are diverse real-world samples in terms of the source generative model, resolution, compression, illumination, aspect-ratio, frame rate, motion, pose, cosmetics, occlusion, content, and context, as it originates from various sources such as news articles and research presentations; totaling up to 142 videos, 32 minutes, and 30 GBs. Synthetic videos are matched with their original counterparts when possible. FIG. 7 demonstrates a subset of the Deep Fakes dataset, in which the original (top) and fake (bottom) video pairs are from online sources.

10.2. Class Accuracies

Dataset accuracy is used as a metric in order to simplify the explanation of results. However, catching fake videos (true positives) is as important as passing real videos through (true negatives). In some defensive systems, detecting real videos as fake (false positive) is more tolerable than letting fake videos slip (false negatives), because there is a secondary manual detection process. On the other hand, too many false positives may overwhelm the system towards manually checking everything.

In order to assess the system towards these concerns, the class accuracies of FakeCatcher were analyzed in different datasets. Table15 lists all dataset, real, and synthetic accuracies on all datasets, and with specific generative models of FF++ [3]. All models use ω = 128 and a 60/40 split, except the one trained on Celeb-DF using the given subsets. There is a slight general tendency of creating false positives. The special case of Celeb-DF that its class imbalance of 6.34:1 fake to real ratio bumps up this tendency. This disturbance is the side effect of the head motion, lighting, color artifacts, and other environment changes on the PPG signal. However, the probabilistic video classification, incorporating frequency domain, and appropriate segment durations negate these side effects. Automatic monitoring systems would prefer false positives over false negatives as long as it is not overwhelming the secondary manual process; which makes FakeCatcher a good candidate for deployment to production.

High accuracy on Deep Fakes dataset substantiates that FakeCatcher is robust to low-resolution, compression, motion, illumination, occlusion, pose, and cosmetics; that enrich the input and slightly reduce the accuracy, without preprocessing. Cross-dataset evaluations were performed (train on Deep Fakes/Face Forensics and test on Face Forensics/Deep Fakes) which support the aforementioned claims about generalizability.

Several evaluations were conducted to set the approach as state-of-the-art solution for deep fake detection. The use of biological signals is justified by several comparisons to off the shelf deep learning solutions and to other fake detectors. Several crucial experiments are listed to guide the combinatorial signal-feature space.

10.3. Numerical Comparisons

In order to promote the effect of biological signals on the detection rate, experiments were performed with several networks: (i) a simple CNN, (ii) Inception V3 [74], (iii) Xception [75], (iv) ConvLSTM [76], (v-vii) three best networks proposed in [39], and (viii) the approach.

All experiments in Table 7 are performed on the same train/test split of the Deep Fakes dataset, with same meta parameters. Deep Fakes dataset was selected, because it is more generalizable as discussed in the previous section. For ConvLSTM and the approach, “Frame” and “Face” indicate segment accuracy, for others they indicate frame accuracy. The last column is video accuracy for all. [39] was not run on face images because their approach utilizes background, and the present technology did not run on entire frames because there is no biological signal in the background.[1] employs a generative model for detection, but their model is restricted to their previous generative method. [12] also claims a high detection rate if the synthetic content is generated by [31] or the VAE used in the FakerApp. [14] reports high accuracy, however their approach is dependent on eye detection and parameterization. All of these [1], [12], [39] employ neural networks blindly and do not make an effort to understand the generative noise experimentally characterized using biological signals.

Based on the comprehensive experiments, biological signals are not well-preserved in deep fakes, however, is the contribution of biological signals significant against pure ML approaches? PPG maps encode authenticity using their spatial coherence and temporal consistency. To prove this, the CNN is trained with (i) input frames (46.89%), (ii) faces cropped from input frames (54.56%), and (iii) the PPG Maps (87.62%) as shown in Table 6. To ensure that this jump is not only the result of temporal consistency, it was compared to the classification accuracy of ConvLSTM on entire and face frames (47.65% and 44.82%), which are even lower than frame-based methods. Thus, (1) biological signals are quantitatively more descriptive for deep fake detection, (2) both spatial and temporal properties of biological signals are important, and (3) these enable the network to perform significantly better than complex and deeper networks.

The combination of signals and feature sets used is experimentally validated. All experiments are documented with the signal definition and transformation (Tables 2 and 3), feature set (Table 4), and SVM classification accuracy, trained on FF (Table 8) and on DF datasets (Table 7), with ω = 128. Furthermore, in Table 5, experiments are documented where specific subsets of Face Forensics were selected (FFT for train, FFX for test, and FFC for validation sets).

-   Â and P of PPGs significantly differ. However, inconsistency is not     separable into frequency bands. However there exists no clear     reduction of these feature sets into lower dimensions, thus CNN     performs better than SVM. -   Comprehensive analysis: Finally, the classifier has higher accuracy     for detection in the wild, for shorter videos, and for mid-size     ROIs.

Variables are introduced into the automatic FakeCatcher, and the values for these parameters are considered below. Segment duration, face region, and different preprocessing techniques for PPGs are also considered below. Furthermore, the explainable feature space was analyzed for its information content and observed its reaction to dimensionality reduction techniques.

Table 8 documents results on the test set, the entire [1] dataset, and Deep Fakes dataset, using different segment durations. Top half preceded by probabilistic video classification, authenticity classifier has flexible segment size, as incorrectly labeled segments may be compensated in the later step. Selecting a relatively smaller segment duration ω = 180 (6 sec), increases the video classification accuracy while keeping it long enough to extract biological signals. Note that when ω is increased above a certain threshold, the accuracy drops for Deep Fakes dataset. This is due to occlusion and illumination artifacts, because the segment covers more facial variety as ω increases.

10.4. Face Region Analysis

For the SVM classifier, biological signals are extracted from three separate regions on the face. The effects of different sizes are assessed for these regions of interests. The ROIs is quantized as very small (a few pixels), small, default, big, and the whole face. Table 9 documents experiments with these ROIs, their corresponding number of pixels, dataset, segment duration (ω = 128 and for ω = 300), and number of segments, with resulting accuracies for pairwise, segment, and video tasks. The pairwise separation, segment classification, and video classification accuracies per ROI size, are plotted on two datasets in FIGS. 9A-9C, which show an ROI Comparison, including a pairwise separation (FIG. 9A), segment (FIG. 9B), and video (FIG. 9C) classification accuracy per several ROIs, on FF and DF datasets.

Lastly, these ROIs are shown on a sample video frame in FIGS. 8A-8E, which show ROI contours, where red contour corresponds to G_(L) and C_(L), green to G_(M) and C_(M), and blue to G_(R) and C_(R). The default ROI is a generalizable choice with a good accuracy for all cases, i.e., whole face (FIG. 8A), big ROI (FIG. 8B), default (FIG. 8C), small ROI (FIG. 8D), few pixels (FIG. 8E), for GL and CL (blue), for GM and CM (green), and for GR and CR (red).

10.5. Signal Processing Enhancements

The representativeness of several possible pre/post processing of feature sets and signals by small experiments while keeping the signal and feature set the same are now documented.

10.5.1. Normalization

The most representative pairwise segmentation result was evaluated with different normalizations on the signals before computing their cross power spectral densities (Table 15). The same toy FF dataset was used and ω = 300 kept constant, producing 387 segments. In this specific separation task, this analysis demonstrated that all frequencies and their ranges are needed as normalization may remove some characteristics of the signals to differentiate original and fake signals.

10.5.2. Band Pass Filtering

Different frequency bands were analyzed to determine whether they contributed in the generative noise. The spectrum was divided into below (f < 1.05 Hz), acceptable (1.05 Hz < f < 3.04 Hz), and high heart rate frequency bands (3.04 Hz < f < 4.68 Hz) as well as an additional high frequency band (f > 4.68 Hz). Table 16 documents pair-wise separation accuracies of the most representative feature, for segment size ω = 300 on entire FF dataset (1320 segments).

10.5.3. Frequency Quantization

The effect of quantization was analyzed after taking the inverse Fourier Transform of the signal. In Table 17 256 bins were verified to be the optimum choice on the best configuration, on the entire FF dataset.

10.5.4. DCT Coefficients as Features

Use of the DCT of the signal (C_(M) in this case) up to N = {1, 2, 3, 4} elements as a feature set was employed, however the accuracy was surpassed. The settings below in Table 18 correspond to the summation of DCT values up to N, respectively.

11. IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS

For each video segment, a Butterworth filter is applied [79] with frequency band of [0.7, 14]. The signal was quantized using Welch’s method [103]. Then, frequencies collected between [hlow, hhigh], which correspond to below, in, and high ranges for heart-beat.

There is no clear frequency interval that accumulated generative noise, so all frequencies were included. The PPG extraction methods in [71] were followed for GL, GM, GR and [70] for CL, CM, CR.

It is worth discussing that PPG signals extracted for heart rate and for the detection task are not of the same quality. For accurate heart rate estimation, PPG signal goes through significant denoising and componentization steps to fit the signal into expected ranges and periods. It was observed that some signal frequencies and temporal changes that may be considered as noise for heart rate extraction actually contains valuable information in terms of fake content. Only their coherence among facial regions and their consistency across segments was employed, achieving 99.39% pair separation accuracy on Face Forensics. Therefore, some steps of cleaning the PPG signals were not followed with the motivation of keeping subtle generative noise. Also, even though videos undergo some transformations (e.g., illumination, resolution, and/or compression), raw PPG correlation does not change in authentic videos.

While the present technology has been demonstrated with biological signals, in the more general case, including fake videos without humans, the technology may be applied to discover and exploit formulations of other spatiotemporal signals (i.e., synthetic illumination, wind, turbulence, etc.) that can be faithfully extracted from original videos.

Further, the CNN structure employed in the examples herein may be provided as a more complex architecture, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

“BioGAN” provides the possibility of a biologically plausible generative model. Although this may be possible by introducing an extra discriminator whose loss incorporates the findings to preserve biological signals, formulating a differentiable loss function that follows the proposed signal processing steps is not straightforward. Mimicking biological signals may be possible by introducing an extra discriminator whose loss incorporates the present technology to preserve biological signals. This necessitates the extraction process to be approximated with a differentiable function in order to enable backpropagation.

For the generalizability of a detector, the data should not be biased towards known generative models. Learning from pairs enables reduction of the effects of other variants and makes the model focus on the generative differences, even though there is compression, as well as motion and illumination artifacts. All pure machine learning based algorithms (as shown in Table 6) have a drop in accuracy compared to the present technology due to blindly exploiting this generative noise. On the other hand, the projection of this noise in biological signal domain was investigated, as a more descriptive interpretation, enabling outperformance of deeper models.

11.1. Module List

An embodiment of FakeCatcher includes the following Modules: Dataset Loader(s), Face Detection, ROI Alignment, PPG Map Creation, Training Module, Evaluation Module, Wrapper Main, (additional) Feature Extraction, (additional) Classification, and (additional) Experimental Modules.

The Dataset Loader loads videos from a dataset in a sequential manner and apply preprocessing to each individual frame if needed (for smooth study). For each dataset tested, there is a dataset module. This dataset module loads the files from the original downloaded dataset and puts them into a FakeCatcher specific folder structure. After that it loads video one by one for training and testing videos. The module has as Input: Dataset, Output: Video Files, and Functions: fPrepareDataset, fGetVideosAndPaths.

The OpenFace Module runs OpenFace [92] for each Video provided from the dataset module and load the generated landmark information. It has Input: Video File, Output: Facial Landmark locations, Face Detection Success Rate, and Functions: fRunOpenFaceOnVideo, fGetOpenFaceData.

The ROI Alignment module extracts region of interest (ROI) from each frame of a video using facial landmarks, then converts to grid-like structure and aligns them. OpenCV and NumPy modules are needed for python for this module to work. It has Input: Video File, Facial Landmark data, Output: Aligned region of images for the Video, and Functions: fGetROIImages.

The PPG Map Creation module calculates PPG Map images from the region of interest Images, and has Input: Aligned ROI images, Output: PPG Map Images, and Functions: fGetPPGMaps, OpenCV, SciPy and NumPy modules are needed for python for this module to work.

The Training Module uses PPG Maps to train the FakeCatcher neural network model, and has Input: A set of PPG Maps from the dataset split, Output: Training accuracy, trained model, and Functions: fDetectFakeACC, NumPy, TensorFlow and Keras modules are needed for python for this module to work.

The Evaluation Module uses PPG Maps to evaluate the FakeCatcher neural network model, and has Input: A set of PPG Maps from the dataset split, Output: Classification accuracy on validation set, and Functions: fDetectFakeACC, NumPy, TensorFlow and Keras modules are needed for python for this module to work.

The Wrapper Main module is a binder module that connects the other modules and creates a data connection link among them. It has no substantive inputs or outputs, and Functions: fMain.

The (additional) Feature Extraction module extracts Facial Features for the classification module, and has Input: Video File, and Output: Segments of 126 features for the video. MATLAB with wavelet, computer vision and signal modules are needed for this module to work.

The (additional) Classification module classifies Real and Fake videos, and has Input: Features, and Output: Classification accuracy. LibSVM needs to be installed on the computer for this module to work.

The (additional) Experiments and Studies is for conducting experiments, ablation studies, and more, by changing hyper parameters, data distributions, and preprocessing, and has Input: Videos, and Output: e.g., Classification accuracy. MATLAB with wavelet, computer vision and signal modules may be employed for various modules, e.g., the additional modules.

12. CONCLUSION

FakeCatcher, a fake portrait video detector based on biological signals is presented, and experimentally validated to demonstrate that spatial coherence and temporal consistency of such signals are not well preserved in GAN-erated content. Following the statistical analysis, a robust synthetic video classifier may be created based on physiological changes. Furthermore, those signals are encapsulated in novel PPG maps to allow developing a CNN-based classifier, which further improves the accuracy and is agnostic to any generative model. The approach for pairwise separation and authenticity classification is evaluated, of segments and videos, on Face Forensics [1] and newly introduced Deep Fakes datasets, achieving 99.39% pairwise separation accuracy, 96% constrained video classification accuracy, and 91.07% in the wild video classification accuracy. These results also verify that FakeCatcher detects fake content with high accuracy, independent of the generator, content, resolution, and quality of the video.

Apart from the FakeCatcher and the Deep Fakes dataset, an in-depth analysis of deep fakes in the wild is provided. Generative models have not been generally explored by biological signals before, and the first experimental study is presented for understanding and explaining human signals in synthetic portrait videos.

13. HELPER SOFTWARE

The following software may be used to implement portions of the system:

-   OpenFace, Used for its executables for feature point detection, -   Matlab with computer vision and signal processing toolboxes -   OpenCV library - Used for Reading and Writing images and videos,     opencv.org/ -   Python, Used as the main development environment and language,     winpython.github.io/ -   Keras, Used for the development of the neural network model,     keras.io/ -   NumPY, Used in order to satisfy the Keras and OpenCV dependencies,     numpy.org/ -   SciPy, Used for various signal and image processing methods,     scipy.org/ -   LibSVM - used for the SVM classification,     www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/

Applications of the invention described herein can take the form of a computer program product accessible from a computer-usable or computer-readable medium (e.g., a non-transitory computer-readable medium) providing program code for use by or in connection with a computer or any instruction execution system, such as an x64 architecture processor system having SIMD GPU coprocessors. For the purpose of this description, a computer-usable or computer readable medium can be any apparatus that can comprise, store, communicate, propagate, or transport the program for use by or in connection with the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. The medium can be an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system (or apparatus or device) or a propagation medium. In some embodiments, the computer-usable or computer readable medium is a non-transitory computer-usable or computer readable medium. Examples of a computer-readable medium include a semiconductor or solid-state memory (e.g., flash memory), a random-access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), a magnetic disk and an optical disk. For some applications, cloud storage, and/or storage in a remote server is used, which typically include similar memory/storage options.

A data processing system suitable for storing and/or executing program code will include at least one processor coupled directly or indirectly to memory elements through a system bus. The memory elements can include local memory employed during actual execution of the program code, bulk storage, and cache memories which provide temporary storage of at least some program code in order to reduce the number of times code must be retrieved from bulk storage during execution. The system can read the inventive instructions on the program storage devices and follow these instructions to execute the methodology of the embodiments of the invention. Network adapters may be coupled to the processor to enable the processor to become coupled to other processors or remote printers or storage devices through intervening private or public networks. Modems, cable modem and Ethernet cards are just a few of the currently available types of network adapters. Computer program code for carrying out operations of the present invention may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object-oriented programming language such as MathCAD, Python, Java, Smalltalk, C++ or the like and conventional procedural programming languages, such as the C programming language or similar programming languages.

It will be understood that the methods described herein can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general-purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions/acts specified in the methods described in the present application. These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable medium (e.g., a non-transitory computer-readable medium) that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable medium produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function/act specified in the methods described in the present application. The computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide processes for implementing the functions/acts specified in the methods described in the present application.

The processor is typically a hardware device programmed with computer program instructions to produce a special purpose computer. For example, when programmed to perform the methods described herein, the computer processor typically acts as a special purpose synthetic video detection computer processor. Typically, the operations described herein that are performed by computer processors transform the physical state of a memory, which is a real physical article, to have a different magnetic polarity, electrical charge, or the like depending on the technology of the memory that is used. The processor may take the form of a field programmable gate array (FPGA), an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), or a neural network implemented on a specialized chip.

The computing device may include a network interface device for communicating with a network, e.g., the Internet or a LAN. A user accessible terminal for the computing device may also may include a user interface unit (e.g., a liquid crystal display (LCD), an alphanumeric input device (e.g., a keyboard), and a cursor control device (e.g., a mouse). The data storage device may include a machine-readable storage medium (or more specifically a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium) on which is stored one or more sets of instructions embodying any one or more of the methodologies or functions described herein. A non-transitory storage medium refers to a storage medium other than a carrier wave. The instructions may also reside, completely or at least partially, within the main memory and/or within the processing device during execution thereof by the computer device, the main memory and the processing device also constituting computer-readable storage media. While the computer-readable storage may be a single medium, the term “computer-readable storage medium” should be taken to include a single medium or multiple media (e.g., a centralized or distributed database, and/or associated caches and servers) that store the one or more sets of instructions. The term “computer-readable storage medium” shall also be taken to include any medium that is capable of storing or encoding a set of instructions for execution by the machine and that cause the machine to perform any one or more of the methodologies of the present disclosure. The term “computer-readable storage medium” shall accordingly be taken to include, but not be limited to, solid-state memories, and optical and magnetic media.

Processing unit may comprise one or more processors, or other control circuitry or any combination of processors and control circuitry that provide, overall control according to the disclosed embodiments. Memory may be implemented as any type of as any type of computer readable storage media, including non-volatile and volatile memory.

The example embodiments disclosed herein may be described in the general context of processor-executable code or instructions stored on memory that may comprise one or more computer readable storage media (e.g., tangible non-transitory computer-readable storage media such as memory). As should be readily understood, the terms “computer-readable storage media” or “non-transitory computer-readable media” include the media for storing of data, code and program instructions, such as memory, and do not include portions of the media for storing transitory propagated or modulated data communication signals.

While the functionality disclosed herein has been described by illustrative example using descriptions of the various components and devices of embodiments by referring to functional blocks and processors or processing units, controllers, and memory including instructions and code, the functions and processes of the embodiments may be implemented and performed using any type of processor, circuit, circuitry or combinations of processors and or circuitry and code. This may include, at least in part, one or more hardware logic components. For example, and without limitation, illustrative types of hardware logic components that can be used include field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), application specific standard products (ASSPs), system-on-a-chip systems (SOCs), complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs), etc. Use of the term processor or processing unit in this disclosure is mean to include all such implementations.

Although the subject matter has been described in language specific to structural features and/or methodological acts, it is to be understood that the subject matter defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or acts described above. Rather, the specific features and acts described above are disclosed as example embodiments, implementations, and forms of implementing the claims and these example configurations and arrangements may be changed significantly without departing from the scope of the present disclosure. Moreover, although the example embodiments have been illustrated with reference to particular elements and operations that facilitate the processes, these elements, and operations may be combined with, or be replaced by, any suitable devices, components, architecture or process that achieves the intended functionality of the embodiment. Numerous other changes, substitutions, variations, alterations, and modifications may be ascertained to one skilled in the art and it is intended that the present disclosure encompass all such changes, substitutions, variations, alterations, and modifications a falling within the scope of the appended claims.

The description of embodiments of the disclosure is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the disclosure to the precise form disclosed. While specific embodiments of, and examples for, the disclosure are described herein for illustrative purposes, various equivalent modifications are possible within the scope of the disclosure, as those skilled in the relevant art will recognize. For example, while method steps or functions are presented in a given order, alternative embodiments may perform functions in a different order, or functions may be performed substantially concurrently. The teachings of the disclosure provided herein can be applied to other procedures or methods as appropriate. The various embodiments described herein can be combined to provide further embodiments. Aspects of the disclosure can be modified, if necessary, to employ the compositions, functions and concepts of the above references and application to provide yet further embodiments of the disclosure. These and other changes can be made to the disclosure in light of the detailed description. All such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of the appended claims.

Specific elements of any of the foregoing embodiments can be combined or substituted for elements in other embodiments. Furthermore, while advantages associated with certain embodiments of the disclosure have been described in the context of these embodiments, other embodiments may also exhibit such advantages, and not all embodiments need necessarily exhibit such advantages to fall within the scope of the disclosure. Each reference cited herein is expressly incorporated herein in its entirety. Such references provide examples representing aspects of the invention, uses of the invention, disclosure of the context of the invention and its use and application. The various aspects disclosed herein, including subject matter incorporated herein by reference, may be employed, in combination or subcombination and in various permutations, consistent with the claims.

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TABLE 1 Image Forensics. Recent approaches with their reported accuracies on the corresponding datasets Ref. Accuracy Dataset Limitation [20] 98% Own, NA only [57] [20] 95% FF [2] only [37] [45] 93.99 AUROC celebA [58] & [9] image only [46] 97.1% Own, NA unpaired [47] 99.60% FF [2] only [37] & image only [47] 46.39% ERR Own, NA only [59] & [60], image only [48] 92% Own, NA image only [49] 0.927 AUC Own, NA only [59] & [60], image only [51] 0.851 AUC Own, NA image only [51] 0.866 AUC FF [2] image only [52] 24.74% EER temp. vidTimit [61] audio only [52] 33.86% EER temp. AMI [62] audio only [52] 14.12% EER temp. grid [63] audio only [22] 99% Own, NA only 50 videos [50] 99% FF [2] only [37] & image only [55] 97% UADFV [56] only [56] & image only [55] 99.9% DF-TIMIT [64] only [64] & image only [21] 0.95 AUC Own, NA person dependent [56] 0.974 AUROC UADFV [56] only [56] & image only

TABLE 2 Signal Definitions. Signals used in all analysis Symbol Signal S {G_(L), G_(R), G_(M), C_(L), C_(R), C_(M)} S_(C) {C_(L), C_(R), C_(M)) D {|C_(L) - G_(L)|, |C_(R) - G_(R)|, |C_(M) - G_(M)|} D_(C) {|C_(L) - C_(M)|, |C_(L) - C_(R)|, |C_(R) - C_(M)|}

TABLE 3 Transformation Definitions. Transformation functions used throughout the analysis of signals specified in Table 2 A(S) autocorrelation Â(S) spectral autocorrelation φ(S_(x),S_(y)) cross correlation P(S) power spectral density A_(p)(S_(C)) pairwise cross spectral densities L(S) log scale X(S) discrete cosine transform W(S) Wavelet transform Y (S) Lyapunov function [80] G(S) Gabor-Wigner transform [81]

TABLE 4 Feature Sets. Feature sets (left) from all experiments are explained (middle) and documented by a reference (right) Feature Explanation Reference F₁ mean and maximum of cross spectral density Sec. 3.3 F₂ RMS of differences, std., mean of absolute differences, ratio of negative differences, zero crossing rate, avg. prominence of peaks, std. prominence of peaks, avg. peak width, std. peak width, max./min. derivative, mean derivative, mean spectral centroid [82] F₃ nb of narrow pulses in spectral autocorrelation, nb of spectral lines in spectral autocorrelation, average energy of narrow pulses, max. spectral autocorrelation [83] F₄ std., std. of mean values of 1 sec windows, RMS of 1 sec differences, mean std. of differences std. of differences, mean of autocorrelation, Shannon entropy [84] F₅ first n Wavelet coefficients W (S) [80], [85] F₆ largest n Lyapunov exponents Y (S) [80] F₇ max. of spectral power density of normalized centered instantaneous amplitude, std. of abs. value of the centered non-linear component of instantaneous phase, std. of centered non-linear component of direct instantaneous phase, std. of abs. value of normalized centered instantaneous amplitude, kurtosis of the normalized instantaneous amplitude [86] F₈ log scale power of delta (1-4 HZ), theta (4-8 HZ), and alpha (8-13 HZ) bands [87] F₉ mean amplitude of high frequency signals, slope of PSD curves between high and low frequencies, variance of inter-peak distances [88]

TABLE 5 Experiments. < Fn from 2> (<transformation from 1> (<signal from 1>)) (left), size of feature vector (middle), and segment classification accuracy (right) of some experiments F |ƒ| ƒ ̃ F₃(Â(S)) 4 × 6 67.55% F₆(L(S)) 600 69.04% F₄(log(S)) 60 69.07% F₂(S) 13 × 6 69.26% F₅(P (W (S))) 390 69.63% F₄(S) U 6 × 6 + 4 × 6 + 3 71.34% F₃(log(S)) U µ_(Ap(Dc)) F₄(log(S) UA_(p)(D_(C)))U 6 × 9 + 6 + 4 × 9 72.01% UF₁(log(DC)) U F₃(log(S) UA_(p)(D_(C)))

TABLE 6 Comparison. Detection accuracies of several networks trained on images, face images, and videos. The next best after the present approach is 8.85% less accurate Model Frame Face Video Simple CNN 46.89% 54.56% 48.88% InceptionV3 73.85% 60.96% 68.88% Xception 78.67% 56.11% 75.55% ConvLSTM 47.65% 44.82% 48.83% [39] V1 86.26% - 82.22% [39] V3 76.97% - 73.33% [39] ensemble 83.18% - 80.00% Ours - 87.62% 91.07%

TABLE 7 Classification Results on DF. Accuracies with ω = 128, on DF dataset, and train/test split of 60/40 Feature set Signal # features Accuracy F₆ S 600 43.22 F₁₂ S 12 43.41 F₃ log(S) 24 43.81 F₆ log(S) 600 43.81 F₁₂ S 12 43.61 F₃ S 24 45.57 F₄ log(S) 36 48.13 F₇ S 30 48.52 F₄F₃F₁ F₄F₃ log(S)×2, log(D_(C)), A_(p)(log(D_(C))) 96 54.02 F₅ S 767 54.22 µ() max() A(log(S)) 12 54.22 F₇ log(S) 30 55.40 F₅ S 390 58.84 F₅ A(log(S)) 390 60.90

TABLE 8 Classification Results on FF. Accuracies of signal transformations and corresponding feature sets Feature Set Signal #Feat. Acc F₅ S 774 51.23 F₈ log(S) 18 51.81 F₆ log(S) 600 51.89 F₇ S 30 58.06 F₇ S_(C) 15 59.29 µ(Ap())) log(D) 3 62.3 F₂ log(S) 78 64.04 F₂ log(S_(C) ) 39 64.32 F₃, F₃ Â(S),13 36 64.89 F₅ log(S) 768 65.27 F₁ C_(L) - C_(R) 2 65.37 F₁ C_(L) - C_(M) 2 65.55 F₇ log(S) 30 65.55 F₁ C_(M) - C_(R) 2 65.84 F₅ S_(C) 768 66.03 F₆ Â(S) 600 66.03 F₂ S_(C) 39 66.88 µ(A())) S_(C) 3 66.88 µ(Ap())) log(D_(C) ) 3 66.88 F₅ A_(p)(log(D_(C) )) 384 66.92 F₁ log(D_(C) ) 6 67.17 F₆ S_(C) 300 67.26 F₃ log(S) 24 67.55 F₃F₃ Ap(log(D_(C))),Â(S) 36 67.55 F₄F₃µ() Ap(S) 63 68.12 µ() A(log(S)) 6 68.88 F₆ log(S) 600 69.04 F₄ log(S) 36 69.07 F₂ S 78 69.26 F₅ P (W (S)) 390 69.63 µ() A_(p)(log(D_(C) )),A(log(S)) 9 69.63 F1F2F3F4F5 F5F6F7F12 log(D_(C) ),S,log(S)×2, log(S)×2,S,log(S)×2 1944 70.49 F₄F₃µ() log(S)×2,A_(p)(D_(C) ) 63 71.34 F₄F₃F₁ F₄F₃ log(S)×2,log(D_(C) ), A_(p)(log(D_(C) ))×2 96 72.01

TABLE 9 Classification on mixed train/test sets. FakeCatcher evaluated on several subsets, with various signals and features Feature set signal test ω train # feat. s. acc v. acc F₅ G(S) FFX 300 FFT+FFC 300 50 - F₆ G(S) FFX 300 FFT+FFC 600 64.75 - F₅ G(log(S)) FFX 300 FFT+FFC 300 70.25 LDA₃(F₁F₃F₄ log(D_(C)),Ap(log(D_(C)))×2, S, FFX 300 FFT+FFC 3 71.75 - F₁₂F₃F₄) log(S)×2 - F₁F₃F₄F₁₂F₃F₄ log(D_(C) ),Ap(log(D_(C)))×2, S,log(S)×2 FFC 300 FFT+FFX 108 71.79 - F₁F₃F₄µ()F₃F₄ log(D_(C)),A_(p)(log(D_(C)))×2,A(S),log(S)×2 FFC 128 FFT+FFX 108 72.21 - PCA₃(F₁F₃F₄ log(D_(C)),Ap(log(D_(C)))×2, FFX 300 FFT+FFC 3 71 69.79 F₁₂F₃F₄) S,log(S)×2 F₁F₃F₄F₃F₄F₅ log(D_(C)),A_(p)(log(D_(C)))×2,log(S)×2,S FFX 300 FFT+FFC 1631 73.25 72.81 F₁F₃F₄F₁₂F₃F₄ log(D_(C)),A_(p)(log(D_(C)))×2,S,log(S)×2 FFX 300 FFT+FFC 126 75 75.16 F₁F₃F₄F₁₂F₃F₄ log(D_(C)),A_(p)(log(D_(C)))×2,S,log(S)×2 FFX 300 FFT 108 74.5 75.50 F₁F₃F₄F₁₂F₃F₄ log(D_(C)),A_(p)(log(D_(C)))×2,S,log(S)×2 FFX 300 FFT+FFC 108 75 78.18 F₁F₃F₄F₁₂F₃F₄ log(D_(C)),A_(p)(log(D_(C)))×2,S,log(S)×2 FFX 128 FFT 108 76.37 79.53 F₁F₃F₄F₃F₄ log(D_(C)),A_(p)(log(D_(C)))×2,log(S)×2 FFX 128 FFT+FFC 108 75.51 79.53 F₁F₃F₄F₁₂F₃F₄ log(D_(C)),A_(p)(log(D_(C)))×2,S,log(S)×2 FFX 128 FFT+FFC 126 77.12 81.54 F₁F₃F₄F₁₂F₃F₄ log(D_(C)),A_(p)(log(D_(C)))×2,S,log(S)×2 FFX 128 FFT+FFC 108 77.50 82.55

TABLE 10 Cross Dataset Results. Accuracies for FakeCatcher trained on the first column and tested on the second column Train Test Video Accuracy Celeb-DF [4] FF++ [3] 83.10% FF++ [3] Celeb-DF [4] 86.48% FF++ [3] Deep Fakes Dataset 84.51% Celeb-DF [4] Deep Fakes Dataset 82.39% Deep Fakes FF [2] 86.34% FF [2] Deep Fakes Dataset 67.61% FF++ [3] UADFV [56] 97.92% Deep Fakes Dataset FF++ [3] 80.60% Deep Fakes Dataset Celeb-DF [4] 85.13%

TABLE 11 Cross Model Results on FF++. Accuracies of FakeCatcher on FF++ dataset variations, where the samples generated by the model in the second column is excluded as test set Train Test Video Accuracy FF++ Face2Face Face2Face [37] 95.25% FF++ FaceSwap FaceSwap [59] 96.25% FF++ Deepfakes Deepfakes [57] 93.75% FF++ NeuralTextures NeuralTextures [77] 81.25%

TABLE 12 Accuracy per Segment Duration. Effects of ω, on segment and video accuracies, using SVM and CNN classifiers, on FF test, entire FF, and DF datasets. First 8 rows denote pairwise task ω dataset s. acc. v. acc. CNN s. CNN v. 64 FF test 95.75% - - - 128 FF test 96.55% - - - 256 FF test 98.19% - - - 300 FF test 99.39% - - - 64 FF 93.61% - - - 128 FF 94.40% - - - 256 FF 94.15% - - - 300 FF 95.15% - - - 128 DF 75.82% 78.57% 87.42% 91.07% 150 DF 73.30% 75.00% - - 180 DF 76.78% 80.35% 86.25% 85.71% 240 DF 72.17% 73.21% - - 300 DF 69.25% 66.07% - - 128 FF 77.50% 82.55% 94.26% 96% 150 FF 75.93% 78.18% - - 180 FF 75.87% 78.85% 92.56% 93.33% 256 FF 72.55% 73.82% - - 300 FF 75.00% 75.16% - - 450 FF 70.78% 71.33% - - 600 FF 68.75% 68.42% - -

TABLE 13 ROI Analysis on SVM Classifier: Five different ROI sizes are evaluated on FF and DF datasets, with different segment sizes. Corresponding values are plotted in FIGS. 9A-9C, and corresponding ROI’s are drawn on FIGS. 8A-8E ROI # pix data ω # seg p. acc s. acc v. acc Smallest 356 FF 128 1058 95.46 68.25 70.33 Smallest 356 FF 300 400 98.50 68.18 67.79 Smallest 356 DF 128 140 68.76 59.44 55.55 Smallest 356 DF 300 43 60.51 61.36 60.86 Small 2508 FF 128 1058 93.00 80.94 81.51 Small 2508 FF 300 400 94.50 77.41 76.47 Small 2508 DF 128 140 80.35 61.53 60.00 Small 2508 DF 300 43 81.53 68.18 65.21 Default 7213 FF 128 1058 96.55 77.50 82.55 Default 7213 FF 300 400 99.39 75.00 75.16 Default 7213 DF 128 140 83.55 75.82 78.57 Default 7213 DF 300 43 83.69 69.25 66.07 Big 10871 FF 128 1058 84.87 74.75 77.50 Big 10871 FF 300 400 87.50 73.07 71.66 Big 10871 DF 128 140 78.58 63.57 63.63 Big 10871 DF 300 43 82.51 60.46 59.09 Face 10921 FF 128 1058 61.66 60.04 74.23 Face 10921 FF 300 400 58.97 60.00 74.84 Face 10921 DF 128 140 58.93 61.53 62.22 Face 10921 DF 300 43 56.97 50.00 52.17

TABLE 14 Robustness. FakeCatcher accuracies on Celeb-DF dataset under different Gaussian Blur and Median filtering operations with different kernel sizes Operation Kernel Accuracy Original N/A 91.50% Gaussian blur 3×3 91.31% Gaussian blur 5×5 88.61% Gaussian blur 7×7 85.13% Gaussian blur 9×9 70.84% Gaussian blur 11×11 65.44% Median Filter 3×3 88.41% Median Filter 5×5 83.01% Median Filter 7×7 71.42% Median Filter 9×9 65.44% Median Filter 11×11 65.35%

TABLE 15 Normalization Effects: Several normalization techniques are applied to the best configuration in the pairwise test Normalization Accuracy None 99.39 2-norm 87.34 ∞-norm 84.03 Standardized moment 63.55 Feature scaling 59.03 Spectral whitening 49.09 Coefficient of variation 34.03

TABLE 16 Frequency Bands: Analysis on several frequency bands for best pairwise separation accuracy on entire FF dataset Frequency band Accuracy 0-15 95.15 0-1.05 80.58 1.05-3.04 88.51 3.04-4.68 88.21 4.68-15 94.92

TABLE 17 Quantization Evaluation: Analysis on different bin counts for best pairwise separation accuracy on entire FF dataset iFFT bins Accuracy 64 94.01 128 94.92 256 95.15 512 94.92

TABLE 18 DCT Components as Features: Following some image spoofing papers, accuracies with several DCT cut-offs with several window sizes are evaluated ω #videos Setting Accuracy Setting Accuracy 512 62 D 70.96 B 77.41 256 236 D 70.33 B 72.03 196 323 D 71.20 B 77.39 128 532 D 68.23 B 72.93 64 1153 D 65.04 B 69.64 512 62 C 75.80 A 77.41 256 236 C 67.18 A 73.72 196 323 C 77.39 A 75.54 128 532 C 73.30 A 73.68 64 1153 C 68.08 A 69.55 

1. A method of analyzing a time-sequence of images, comprising: detecting a face represented in the time-sequence of images; generating signal maps of the face, which preserve local photoplethysmographic properties; analyzing the local photoplethysmographic properties of the signal maps for both spatial coherence and temporal consistency; and producing an output dependent on the analysis.
 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the output corresponds to a probability of synthetic origin of the time-sequence of images.
 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said analyzing is performed by a convolutional neural network.
 4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the convolutional neural network is trained with labelled video training examples comprising authentic faces and at least partly synthetic faces, and the output is responsive to whether the time-sequence of images comprises at least partly synthetic faces.
 5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the labelled at least partly synthetic faces are produced by a generative network.
 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said analyzing is performed by a support vector network.
 7. The method according to claim 1, wherein said analyzing comprises determining a power spectral density of respective signal maps.
 8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising performing pattern recognition of the time-sequence of images to: identify predetermined regions of the skin, and tracking movement of the predetermined regions of the skin over time wherein the spatial coherence is normalized for the position of the respective predetermined regions of the skin.
 9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising extracting a feature vector from each signal map of the face, and classifying the feature vectors with a probabilistic classifier.
 10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising generated a modified time-sequence of images with a modifying face having increased spatial coherence and temporal consistency with respect to the time-sequence of images.
 11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the time-sequence of images comprises a compressed video image.
 12. A method of analyzing a time-sequence of images, comprising: tracking movements of a face represented in the time-sequence of images; generating photoplethysmographic signal maps of the face, normalized for the tracked movements; determining power spectral densities of the photoplethysmographic signal maps; analyzing the power spectral densities of the photoplethysmographic signal maps for both spatial coherence and temporal consistency; and outputting a signal representing unnatural origin of the face dependent on the analysis.
 13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the signal representing unnatural origin of the face represents a probability of synthetic origin of the face.
 14. The method according to claim 12, wherein said analyzing is performed by a deep neural network.
 15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the deep neural network is trained with labelled video training examples comprising authentic faces and synthetic faces.
 16. A method of determining modification of a facial image in a video, comprising: automatically recognizing regions of interest comprising facial landmarks in the video; generating a movement-normalized map of blood flow induced variations of the facial image; determining a spatial coherence and temporal consistency of the movement-normalized map of blood flow induced variations; employing an artificial neural network trained with labelled samples of video representing synthetic faces and natural faces, to produce an output dependent on the training.
 17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the artificial neural network comprises a convolutional neural network.
 18. The method according to claim 16, further comprising extracting a feature vector from each movement-normalized map of the blood flow induced variations of the facial image with a probabilistic classifier.
 19. The method according to claim 16, further comprising extracting a feature vector from at least biological signals in the video, and classifying the video dependent on the feature vector with a probabilistic video classifier.
 20. The method according to claim 16, wherein the labelled samples representing synthetic faces are produced by a generative network. 